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aspire

Definition for aspire

verb as in aim, hope

Strongest matches

crave, pursue, strive, yearn

Strong matches

desire, dream, hanker, long, seek, struggle, try, want, wish

Weak matches

be ambitious, be eager

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He has also been an entrepreneur and would-be mogul aspiring to join the ranks of those he writes about.

In one such talk earlier this year, he doled out advice to aspiring researchers: “If you are a Ph.D. student in AI, you should absolutely not work on LLMs.”

More than half of aspiring buyers in one recent survey believed that they will be 40 or older when they buy their first home.

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She described her brother as bright, full of energy and a natural entrepreneur who had studied law at college and aspired to follow his great grandfather into a career in the Army.

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Adam said the tutor had to be somebody who went to "the right kinds of schools - the same kinds of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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