aspiration

Example Sentences

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That collapse has erased hundreds of billions in market value from European luxury conglomerates and American beauty giants that bet heavily on Chinese middle-class aspiration.

From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026

"I'm pretty comfortable with the aspiration to be in a unique special relationship as long as we remember it needs to be created," he says.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

Beshear’s not-yet-candidacy, still in the fledgling phase, offers a mix of aspiration and admonition.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2026

Mr. Mansfield claims that this aspiration extends all the way back to Niccolò Machiavelli’s proposal to replace useless knowledge with the “effectual truth.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Even that modest aspiration was to be arrived at “voluntarily.”

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson