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- noun Plural form of
aspirer .
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Examples
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The world is full of people who aspire to write, but those who actually do the work will outlast the aspirers, no matter how talented they may be.
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With this All the contenders/aspirers of the Democratic presidential primaries have been rehabilitated, ofcourse minus John Edwards who but for for his personal judgement flaw is out of the public life. —
Vilsack Picked for Agriculture Secretary - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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It is apparent that many aspirers to fame and talent are eager to exhibit their eccentricities to the gaze of the world, in order that they may persuade the multitude that they possess the genius of which eccentricity is falsely supposed to be the outward sign.
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Lovers of creature-comfort, and aspirers after respectability.
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S: The sealing of it is (with) musk; and for that let the aspirers aspire.
Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Abdullah Yusuf Ali 1902
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As is usual in such cases, there were abundant applications among the negroes for official positions, and Toussaint was sorely put to it to dispose of these ignorant aspirers after high places without giving offence.
Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume III Charles Morris 1877
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Was there ever anything so unreasonable in one who is herself of a "peculiar people" and one of the pitiful aspirers!
Transcription of a Letter to Helena deKay Gilder from Mary Hallock Foote Jewish Women's Archive 1876
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Was there ever anything so unreasonable in one who is herself of a "peculiar people" and one of the pitiful aspirers!
Transcription of a Letter to Helena deKay Gilder from Mary Hallock Foote Jewish Women's Archive 1876
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The professors of religion of the present day, in every church, are lovers of the world, conformers to the world, lovers of creature comfort, and aspirers after respectability.
The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan Ellen Gould Harmon White 1871
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To a taste intuitively fine and noble the essential vulgarities -- the fierceness to-day, the cringing to-morrow; the veneration for power; the indifference to virtue, which characterised the framers and rulers of "society" -- could not but bring contempt as well as anger; and amidst the brilliant circles, to which so many aspirers looked up with hopeless ambition, Constance moved only to ridicule, to loathe, to despise.
Godolphin, Volume 1. Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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