ambition
Example Sentences
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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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Nothing But the Truth
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