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The aspiring scientist set her sights on curing cancer, a goal that would require years of hard work and dedication.aspiring = hoping to be successful
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She aspires to compete in the Olympics one day.aspires = hopes
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The young artist aspires to create masterpieces that will inspire generations to come.
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She aspires to become a renowned author.
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If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.† (source)
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As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.† (source)
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But the Piazza did not aspire to elegance, service, or subtlety.† (source)aspire = hope to be successful
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The usual suspects: crazed fans, wannabe disciples, and aspiring bounty hunters.† (source)aspiring = hoping to be successful
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Then three or four western bad men aspired to clean out the town, were riddled like pepper-boxes for their pains, and public interest turned to other idols. (source)aspired = hoped to be successful
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It seems the boy aspires to take the black.† (source)aspires = hopes to be successful
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It was to teach them, that the holiest amongst us has but attained so far above his fellows as to discern more clearly the Mercy which looks down, and repudiate more utterly the phantom of human merit, which would look aspiringly upward.† (source)aspiringly = in the manner of someone who hopes to be successful
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He saw no more the deep eyes, but the voice came over him as a spirit voice, and, as in a sort of judgment vision, his whole past life rose in a moment before his eyes: his mother's prayers and hymns; his own early yearnings and aspirings for good; and, between them and this hour, years of worldliness and scepticism, and what man calls respectable living.† (source)aspirings = hopes to be successful
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because the people loved peace, and for this reason they loved the unaspiring prince, whilst the soldiers loved the warlike prince who was bold, cruel, and rapacious, which qualities they were quite willing he should exercise upon the people, so that they could get double pay and give vent to their own greed and cruelty.† (source)unaspiring = without hope for successstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unaspiring means not and reverses the meaning of aspiring. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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for they weened That self-same day, by fight or by surprise, To win the mount of God, and on his throne To set the Envier of his state, the proud Aspirer;† (source)Aspirer = someone who hopes to be successful
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He serves you after strange devices: No earthly meat or drink the fool suffices: His spirit's ferment far aspireth; Half conscious of his frenzied, crazed unrest, The fairest stars from Heaven he requireth, From Earth the highest raptures and the best, And all the Near and Far that he desireth Fails to subdue the tumult of his breast.† (source)aspireth = has an ambitious plan or lofty goalstandard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She aspireth" in older English, today we say "She aspires."
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Aspire to a level of coolness known only as ..."Botanist Cool."† (source)Aspire = hope to be successful
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