aspiration
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However, if a poem leads you to a state of understanding, of awareness, and above all, aspiration, then you start to think about a different life, you want to live differently.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
Graham says he found the letter and "the aspiration to be decent and to be good" very moving.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
It’s a chronicle of race history in the late 19th and 20th centuries, with all the unpleasantness, and yet it is an act of poetic aspiration, resignation and bravura aesthetics.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
“I was raised by two moms, and I had this strange aspiration to become the dad,” Malone said, laughing.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
They told funny, compelling stories about their lives, but committing the details to paper was, for them, a chore rather than an aspiration.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
Vocabulary lists containing aspiration
This Week in Pop Culture : January 5 - 11, 2019
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Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
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Dwight D. Eisenhower, "The Military-Industrial Complex" (1961)
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