ambitiousness

noun

as in ambition
eager desire for personal advancement for sheer ambitiousness, few professions can rival the modeling world

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ambition
Noun
  • The decline primarily stems from Goldman's sale of its Apple credit card business to JPMorgan — a smart move to pare back its consumer banking ambitions.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 14 July 2026
  • Tailing basins, designed to hold the byproducts of extraction, grow taller and taller, as if humans and our ambition were competing against nature.
    — Cristina Dorador, The Dial, 14 July 2026
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“Ambitiousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ambitiousness. Accessed 15 Jul. 2026.

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