aspiration
Example Sentences
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That covers untold millions of Boomers, Xers and Millennials to whom Moore demonstrated that sky-high career aspirations and happiness are a woman’s right.
From Salon
It is one of the highest-valued private companies in the world and recently interviewed banks for a summer IPO with aspirations to raise billions of dollars, the Journal reported.
Mr. Mansfield claims that this aspiration extends all the way back to Niccolò Machiavelli’s proposal to replace useless knowledge with the “effectual truth.”
The Colombian film “A Poet” is, yes, about a poet, though that title takes on a revolving set of connotations—an aspiration, an occupation, a mocking epithet, a euphemism for “unemployed.”
Doing the political math, he abandoned his statewide aspirations and made the city his electoral prize.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
