aspiration
Example Sentences
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“Three Trees” is a Christian folktale in which trees with lofty aspirations end up with very different uses than they had dreamed of, finding fulfillment instead in God’s plans for them.
From Los Angeles Times
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
"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
The U.S., she continued, should “support the aspirations of the Iranian people for a secular democracy.”
At 50, he finally gave up on his Olympic aspirations.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
