as in ambition
eager desire for personal advancement
for sheer ambitiousness, few professions can rival the modeling world
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ambition
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Last year, Turkey reached a historic turning point in its decades-long conflict with militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) after the group renounced violence and ambitions to secede.—
Jeremy Diamond,
CNN Money,
14 Jan. 2026 -
The art of restraint Western brands entering China, especially its high-security capital city of Beijing, have long had to straddle a fine line between local marketing ambitions and reputational risks to the brand back home.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
14 Jan. 2026
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“Ambitiousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ambitiousness. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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