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ambition

[am-bish-uhn] / æmˈbɪʃ ən /




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Plus, letting go of your ambition, the seductive power of gold and what makes ‘The Pitt’ a hit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

The project fits into Musk's long-term ambition to build colonies on the Moon and Mars and is "a first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization," he wrote.

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

Rather than relying solely on narratives of limits or collapse, long-term solutions may depend on tapping into shared goals and collective ambition.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026

But there was truth in it; the toxic ambition, the long hours, the exciting feeling that you were working on something people cared about.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

For them, the city represented something new under the Southern sun: a place where anyone could prosper, where ambition and hard work, not skin color, determined one’s chances for success or failure.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson




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