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"Rather we aspire for it to grow, and perhaps appropriate conditions will emerge one day for all countries of the region to gather under its umbrella."

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

I saw not as a cautionary tale, but something to aspire to,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Even in moments when they do feel lonely, these women say loneliness doesn't define their lives, nor do they aspire to remain permanently friendless.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

Many still aspire to be homeowners, but “owning a home, on its own, says little about a family’s broader financial picture,” they wrote, and having ample investable assets is necessary for security.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

Why is it that most people aspire to little more than comfort?

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

Archer aspires to build a fleet of air taxis that could potentially jet New York City travelers to airports in 15 minutes or less, avoiding traffic jams.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

The tournament was a phenomenal branding opportunity for the startup, which aspires to move beyond sports to offer bets on news events, finance and technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

Corvette, a promising and hard-working designer herself who aspires to Christie’s brilliance, is tormented by nightmares of rich people complaining about the generation who “can’t expect everything to be handed to them.”

From Salon ● May 22, 2026

“Sheep” aspires for Spielbergian catharsis — one scene seems to consider itself an art-house take on “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” — but the human characters come off as mechanical as the little robot boy.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

Where not to work if you’re a hacker who aspires to stay off government radar: the Apple Genius Bar.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

Despite his family’s immense wealth, Vanderbilt aspired to be a journalist.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Manuel Cuesta, a 63-year-old historian and opposition activist, recalled seeing Castro as a "redeemer" in his youth who had made Cuba what it aspired to be.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

A designer, Corvette once aspired to create her own clothing line but couldn’t get her spike-heeled foot in the door.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

Many series followed in the wake of “Battlestar Galactica” that aspired to capitalize on its legacy; in my mind, “The Expanse” came closest to meeting its level of fearless political and social pertinence.

From Salon ● May 5, 2026

Mendel, the monk, was an isolator; Darwin, who had once aspired to be a parson, a synthesizer.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Speakers blamed the media for causing Arday’s death and defended his legacy as a trailblazer for other aspiring Black academics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

In the film, Early plays Maddie Ralph, an aspiring test-kitchen chef at a hip food publication.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026

They are demanding the resignation of the Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, after a key entrance exam for aspiring doctors was cancelled in early May following a paper leak.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

The divorced aspiring actor “filmed every second of my life” when she was a youngster, noting that the two were inseparable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

Visiting valets, I have found, are often the worst offenders, aspiring as they usually do to the position of butler with some urgency.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro