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• Over a year later, that plan may have been too ambitious for at least one partner.
  — Bynicholas Gordon, Fortune, 11 July 2023
• Worried that twenty-one days may be too ambitious for a first canoe trip.
  — Hazlitt, 13 Nov. 2024
• Tarkus was pretty ambitious for a second record.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2026
• Both my parents were very ambitious for me, which was unusual.
  — New York Times, 24 Dec. 2021
• Then again maybe this age is making people ambitious for different things.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 28 July 2022
• The recipes have been scaled down and simplified for a home kitchen, though some will likely still feel too ambitious for weeknight fare.
  — Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2021
• Jay has become very ambitious for doing those types of things that have gotten him his success in every area of his life.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 20 July 2026
• Risk Ledger is ambitious for the long term, but is evolving its value proposition in steps.
  — David Prosser, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• The Angels plan to use six starting pitchers, which is quite ambitious for a team that struggles every year to find two or three.
  — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2021
• The whole concept is incredibly ambitious for a debut album, yet Rodriguez pulls it off with style and aplomb.
  — James Factora, Them, 30 Sep. 2024
• If that’s still a little too ambitious for you, start with Brambleberry’s simple translucent base.
  — Meghan Caudill, Good Housekeeping, 8 Jan. 2018
• And while ambitious for offensive reinforcements, Smith is happy where his team is.
  — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 17 June 2024
• And its look at Shanice’s state of mind feels rooted in potential to do something at least somewhat ambitious for a teen-centric network.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 25 Oct. 2021
• The result — and small moments like the fans’ sassy chant — sent the message that the United States was ascendant and ambitious for more.
  — Andrew Keh, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2022
• Artemis program has been called ambitious for its goal of returning humans to Earth’s moon as early as 2024.
  — Leonard David, Scientific American, 24 June 2020
• If a trip out to Yellowstone seems a little too ambitious for your tastes, be sure to check out the list below—there might be a bison herd found just beyond your backyard.
  — Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• The list was a bit too ambitious for me (the Bananavardier mixes bourbon, vermouth, campari and a banana liqueur), but my mezcal negroni was tasty.
  — Sommer Brugal, Axios, 4 Sep. 2024
• His mother was loving, controlling, independently wealthy, and very ambitious for her son.
  — Robert MacFarlane, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2020
• But in Disney’s non-streaming world pre-2019, the ideas Gilroy came up with seemed too costly and ambitious for television.
  — David Betancourt, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
• Being too large and ambitious for a commercial gallery, while too of-the-moment for a slow-moving museum, an exhibition like this would otherwise have had a hard time finding a home.
  — Benjamin Lima special Contributor, Dallas Morning News, 24 Feb. 2026
• This all might sound overly ambitious for what is effectively the replacement for the unassuming ILX.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 26 May 2022
• The craziest chapter of Wexler’s life started when his wife Olivia attempted to pull off something very ambitious for his 35th birthday.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 6 Feb. 2024
• Yet, Polkadot's adoption rate has been slower than anticipated, leaving some to wonder if its vision is too ambitious for the current market.
  — Wesley Crook, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
• If all that is too ambitious for the summer, the networks could get the folks who do Hallmark and Lifetime telepics to churn out some cost-effective pulp fiction or quickie biopics for the summer.
  — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 1 July 2021
• Other members remain ambitious for elective office and decide to use their position in Congress as a springboard for another position.
  — Charlie Hunt, The Conversation, 26 Dec. 2025
• This operation would be ambitious for European countries but not impossible.
  — Elie Tenenbaum, Foreign Affairs, 3 Dec. 2024
• The short version of the story appears to be that the Gen3 changes might have been too ambitious for the suppliers who won the tenders to deliver them, particularly the new battery pack.
  — James Morris, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
• The initial invasion called for multiple lines of attack with no follow-on force, tethering the military to operational objectives that were overly ambitious for the size of its forces.
  — Dara Massicot, Foreign Affairs, 8 Feb. 2023
• But raised expectations and standards — after winning its first sectional title in 10 years and just third in school history — mean the goal’s not too ambitious for the Highlanders.
  — David J. Kim, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2020
• Unity’s big step into domains previously considered overly ambitious for a game company portends a future in which game companies will join the ranks of broader tech companies.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 18 Jan. 2022