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UK
/ɐspˈaɪə/
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[ US /əˈspaɪɹ/ ]
[ US /əˈspaɪɹ/ ]
VERB
- have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal
How To Use aspire In A Sentence
- In developing countries like India, it is the wealthier and better-educated who tend to be aspirational; the poor are not yet in a position to aspire to much of anything.
- I was talking about people who aspire to have their ideas influence the public debate.
- We cannot eliminate all risk, and we should not aspire to do so.
- Wealth is something that we are all encouraged to aspire to, rightly or wrongly. Times, Sunday Times
- Frank, who felt a little provoked over the accident, since he aspired to be a capable canoeman at all times. The Outdoor Chums After Big Game Or, Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness
- I think the policies are a good step towards finding common ground with the European Union, which is I think a vision that all Greeks should aspire to," a bystander told reporters. Rough Road Ahead for Greece Despite Austerity Measures
- The play aspires to the weight and import that American theatre had in the glory days of Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and Tennessee Williams.
- When you concentrate your energy purposely on the future possibility that you aspire to realize, your energy is passed on to it and makes it attracted to you with a force stronger than the one you directed towards it. Stephen Richards
- Onyx also has initiated a Phase III trial, known as ASPIRE, to study carfilzomib in combination with Revlimid and a low dose of dexamethasone, which is used to counteract some chemotherapy side effects, in patients with relapsed multiple myeloma. San Antonio Business News - Local San Antonio News | The San Antonio Business Journal
- For even in those most ungenial days he aspired to literary fame, and as the by-product of laborious years issued, at his own expense, the ‘Poems of a Journeyman Mason’.