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- adjective Having
ambition
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Examples
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His servants, of whatever degree, dined together in the common hall; but some of the more aspiring "ambitioned"
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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Are readers really allergic to the kind of modestly-ambitioned literary criticism I am talking about?
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We must not judge them by the rules of the normally ambitioned.
Wayne Rooney, Americans and the terrible burden of ambition Barney Ronay 2010
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I think the two greatest stage performances I ever saw were the great Shakespearean actor Paul Scofield's King Lear, and Ethel Merman as Rose Hovick, the ruthlessly ambitioned mother of actress June Havoc and superstar stripper Gypsy Rose Lee.
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They choose to hide their faces, or more often to brazen out the inevitable flak to show lesser mortals that they are among the 'untouchables' ... and yet they are the antipathy of democratic governance and an anathema to what Chavez in his heart of hearts truly has ambitioned for his Venezuelan people.
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Any degree of customary journalistic objectivity in what is, after all, a state-owned organization has clearly gone out the window ... regrettably and undeniably negative to what President Hugo Chavez Frias had originally ambitioned as a peaceful revolution towards an egalitarian form of government under the acknowledged principles of Third Way Socialism, albeit with a Venezuelan twist to the tail.
Do Venezuelans really want a Fox News copycat with unmitigated bias to pathetic bootlicking? 2008
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Don't use mixed metaphors, that is, different metaphors in relation to the same subject: "Since it was launched our project has met with much opposition, but while its flight has not reached the heights ambitioned, we are yet sanguine we shall drive it to success."
How to Speak and Write Correctly Joseph Devlin
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I am in possession of all the fame I ever hoped or ambitioned.
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston
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I am in possession of all the fame I ever hoped or ambitioned.
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Paston, George, d. 1936 1902
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'Twas bad enough in the old country, where we knew our places, even though some was ambitioned to get out of them; but here it's like blind man's buff, and enough to turn a body giddy.
People of the Whirlpool Mabel Osgood Wright 1896
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