noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fulfilling...ambition
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Being deaf hasn’t stopped Karen fulfilling her ambition to be a hairdresser.
lifelong ambition
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David finally realized his lifelong ambition .
nurse a grudge/grievance/ambition etc
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For years he had nursed a grievance against his former employer.
pursue your ambitions
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David left the company to pursue his political ambitions.
realized...ambition
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She never realized her ambition of winning an Olympic gold medal.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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But her annoyance over the pictures could not distract Catherine from her latest - and biggest - ambition .
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The speech marked Ventura's decision to withdraw into Minnesota politics following his unsuccessful flirtations with bigger ambitions .
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But the ski instructress died trying to fulfill her biggest ambition - to visit the Everest base camp.
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Angelopoulos has made an indulgent, at times breathtaking film with big ambitions .
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Tall, dark, handsome and eloquent, our hero cuts a dashing figure in the little city with big ambitions .
burning
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His own unashamed, burning ambition is' to make money.
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Bruce was a short, stocky man with red hair and a burning ambition .
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You see, she had this burning ambition to succeed on the stage.
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But they didn't reckon with her burning ambition to win a third time.
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It hadn't been an easy task, and in spite of his burning ambition and will to succeed.
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To achieve that status, a player needs - besides a natural talent - a burning inner ambition .
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He had no burning ambition to climb to the upper reaches of management in those early days, however.
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It was this burning ambition that I took with me into 1986.
great
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He had believed that a country girl like her would find him wonderful, a college man with great ambitions .
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Yet it really happened and I deeply appreciate his articulation of my greatest ambition as a baker.
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So do not be disappointed if you fail to receive a windfall or secure your greatest ambition .
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Ivan Lendl will not achieve his last great ambition - to be Wimbledon Singles Champion. 8.
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But even his critics admit that he is not a man of great ambition .
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But events in the region had offended the West's democratic sensibilities and aroused fears of greater Soviet ambitions .
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His greatest ambition was to be Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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You could achieve your greatest ambition , Mikhail - space, the stars.
high
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None the less, his tennis has high ambitions .
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This is a high ambition for a book targeted at the general reader.
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It is often the case that the highest ambitions can be born in the darkest days of defeat.
lifelong
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It's taken artist, Chris Fiddes, 60 days to complete, the realisation of a lifelong ambition .
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She says it's been a lifelong ambition to work with horses.
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Stephen admits he's unlikely to realise his lifelong ambition of playing for Aston Villa.
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In 1990, however, David finally realised his lifelong ambition .
personal
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As long as individuals are different and have personal aims, ambitions and needs they will seek to achieve those for themselves.
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His background helps, perhaps, to explain his personal ambition and drive.
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He feels no need to conceal his personal ambition .
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The 15 Democrats left behind accused Saunders and his four Democratic supporters of putting personal ambition before principle.
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Crossing the Sahara was a personal ambition and all the rules were self-made.
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It's also a personal ambition to go around the circuit.
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We are interested in the social implications of personal ambition , greed, anger and hatred.
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Anyhow, I had no personal ambition .
political
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For her sake, Harry had abandoned his political ambitions , and had become a simple man of the church.
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Yeltsin fumed at questions of whether the nuclear summit and surrounding meetings were tailored to his political ambitions .
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The political ambitions of the working class had normally been channelled through parliamentary and constitutional routeways.
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And he was that greater rarity, a Moses without political ambition .
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He is just 50 and apparently at the limits of his political ambition .
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This experience shaped the political ambition that led ultimately to his coup of 23 July 1952.
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They say they consider him uncorrupted, and are impressed by his relative lack of political ambition .
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He had political ambitions , and knew how to make friends at Tammany Hall.
presidential
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He resigned as Defence Secretary in July 1991 in order to pursue his presidential ambitions .
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There are already about a dozen people with presidential ambitions .
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Kemp and Gore served in Congress together and had seen their presidential ambitions sidetracked in 1988.
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Mr Balladur denies presidential ambitions , but such figures are enough to turn anyone's head.
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However, for this and other reasons, he renounced presidential ambitions .
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Every vice president has presidential ambitions , of course.
territorial
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Belpan had little crime, no enemies, nothing worth stealing, and no territorial ambitions .
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Although Britain had long had trading connections with these areas, hitherto she had had no territorial ambitions there.
■ VERB
achieve
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He has at last achieved his ambition to look both indistinguishable and distinctive.
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He had achieved his life's ambition .
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Would she herself end up like that, if she achieved her ambition of becoming the managing editor of a magazine?
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Ivan Lendl will not achieve his last great ambition - to be Wimbledon Singles Champion. 8.
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It was not until last year that I achieved my ambition to sail there.
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Five days later Vernage was to achieve his gruesome ambition to kill a policeman.
become
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Both books, written out of what had gradually become a burning ambition , were however nothing more than starters.
burn
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Both books, written out of what had gradually become a burning ambition , were however nothing more than starters.
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He had married a woman with burning social ambition , twenty years his junior.
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But, even at 40, he still burns with ambition to dump Indy racing and make a Grand Prix come-back.
drive
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He was driven by an enormous ambition and unrelenting ego, making him a living symbol of black self-determination.
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Schuster -- is spinning out of control, driven by the mercurial ambitions of the 72-year-old Redstone.
fulfil
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Maria Aznar, fulfilled his long-standing ambition to win promotion to the status of a large medium-sized country.
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In part, this was because she had fulfilled her ministerial ambitions .
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He offered his services to the Edinburgh Missionary Society as an overseas candidate, thus fulfilling a youthful ambition .
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The male has fulfilled his ambition of bigamy at the expense of a female.
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To fulfil this ambition he was prepared to go to any lengths, nomatterhow underhand or devious they might be.
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While their four children were growing up, she put off fulfilling her ambition to run an antique shop of her own.
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This is an excellent time of year to fulfil your ambitions !
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Since then he has fulfilled many ambitions , learned new skills and tested his courage and physical fitness to the limit.
fulfill
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He offered his services to the Edinburgh Missionary Society as an overseas candidate, thus fulfilling a youthful ambition .
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However, some work is discretionary, taken on to fulfill ambitions or to purchase unnecessary luxuries.
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While their four children were growing up, she put off fulfilling her ambition to run an antique shop of her own.
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The siege had shown that, with artillery, Henry V had the capability of fulfilling his military ambition .
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But the ski instructress died trying to fulfill her biggest ambition - to visit the Everest base camp.
lack
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She questioned whether what they lacked was not ruthless ambition .
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Who had said he lacked ambition ?
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Or will his lack of ambition drive you to distraction?
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I suppose I lacked serious ambition .
nurse
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More crucial, in the president's eyes, is the fact that Se guin may be nursing other ambitions .
play
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He had no ambitions to play Hook and certainly not at four days' notice.
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My main ambition is to play something magical on the piano.
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Stephen admits he's unlikely to realise his lifelong ambition of playing for Aston Villa.
realise
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With care, you can realise all your ambitions without lifting a finger.
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Stephen admits he's unlikely to realise his lifelong ambition of playing for Aston Villa.
realize
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All those who made it possible for me to realize a lifetime's ambition .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
burning ambition/desire/need etc
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Both books, written out of what had gradually become a burning ambition, were however nothing more than starters.
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Bruce was a short, stocky man with red hair and a burning ambition.
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But they didn't reckon with her burning ambition to win a third time.
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His own unashamed, burning ambition is' to make money.
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I just have never had a burning desire to practice law.
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It hadn't been an easy task, and in spite of his burning ambition and will to succeed.
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The second time, it was a passion, a burning desire.
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You see, she had this burning ambition to succeed on the stage.
driving ambition
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Talented but without driving ambition, Lehmann was during his last years handicapped by Parkinson's disease.
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Thus, with each page, she becomes increasingly unattractive and vainglorious - brains and spirit corrupted by driving ambition.
vaulting ambition
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Your problem," said Arthur, "is that you have no ambition ."
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Earlier this year, he achieved his ambition of competing in the Olympic games.
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Eric wasn't particularly intelligent but he had plenty of ambition .
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Getting to the top hadn't been easy, in spite of his burning ambition and will to succeed.
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Her ambition was to go to law school and become an attorney.
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Kasich is thought to have grand political ambitions.
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My teachers always told me that I lacked ambition , and would never get anywhere.
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What can you do with a kid who has no ambition ?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But his ambition had its limits.
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But I do think as long as you've got ambitions in life you can do anything you want.
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But the shamelessness of her ambition was nothing compared with Farin a's.
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I hardly dared formulate my ambition to myself.
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She had early ambitions to be a marine biologist, and always claimed that lack of formal educational opportunity prevented her.
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The words came over clearly but cautiously: Leslie Brent was denied his ambition to be a cook.
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Unfortunately, his skills and ambition have not yielded any meaningful understanding of the region.
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Yeltsin fumed at questions of whether the nuclear summit and surrounding meetings were tailored to his political ambitions.