aspirations

noun

plural of aspiration
as in goals
something that one hopes or intends to accomplish college is his immediate aspiration after he graduates from high school

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Recent Examples of aspirations Bennett and Liberman have not endorsed Eisenkot and both have their own premiership aspirations. — Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026 How Richard Branson inspired Tan-Gillespie’s career ethos As Tan-Gillespie’s career developed, so did her aspirations. — Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026 Maxey also buried a 46-footer to end the first quarter and jump-start yet another win for a Sixers team playing with serious NBA championship aspirations. — ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026 Presented as a new 4K restoration, Ové’s Pressure follows Tony (Herbert Norville), who is caught between his Trinidadian parents’ aspirations for assimilation and his activist brother’s contempt for his racist new home. — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2026 Dawson turned the feedback into a visual installation featuring hundreds of handwritten words on sticky notes representing the community's hopes and aspirations. — Adam Thompson, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026 The other shoots rockets into space and has aspirations to make it to Mars. — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026 Faux, a spot with clear New York City Restaurant aspirations, opened last month in a double-height Tribeca storefront. — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026 An acquisition of this sort would expand OpenAI's cybersecurity aspirations. — Alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for aspirations
  1. goals
  2. purposes
  3. plans
  4. ambitions
  5. aims
  6. objectives
  7. intentions
  8. ideas
Noun
  • The Sun enters your sign today, beginning your season and putting greater emphasis on your goals, identity, presence, and personal direction.
    — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Knuble, playing his second career game, scored his first two goals in front of his father, former NHL forward Mike Knuble, who played 1,068 games with five teams.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of goals
Noun
  • The benefit of being an official NFL partner is more for marketing purposes instead of anything that actually impacts lines.
    — OutKick, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Well, myself and the people in my office, but yes, for all intents and purposes, it has not been seen by anyone.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of purposes
Noun
  • Luigi Carbone, Pope Leo XIV's physician, said the pontiff's recovery from lung cancer surgery won't stop plans for a visit to Uruguay, Argentina and Peru involving a dozen flights and two helicopter rides to high altitudes.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2026
  • The company behind Claude AI announced plans to commit 5% of its shares to a new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, subject to stockholder approval.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of plans
Noun
  • Tonight’s Venus cazimi could illuminate which opportunities, ambitions, or forms of recognition genuinely appeal to you now.
    — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 23 Oct. 2026
  • India is also grappling with similar issues that pose a threat to its ambitions to host the whole world’s data.
    — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of ambitions
Noun
  • The cynic would say their aims are financial, and the outcomes in education are merely incidental to that end.
    — Kamau Bobb October 21, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026
  • But the uneven nature of the film, its plotting, its character motivations, and its aims only become bigger and bloodier as the film winds on.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of aims
Noun
  • Akhlaghi added Iran was concentrating on its objectives through the use of new technologies.
    — Khaled Wassef, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The difference is that Russian coercion must now be aimed at Europe rather than the United States to achieve these objectives.
    — Dmitry Adamsky, Foreign Affairs, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of objectives
Noun
  • Despite researchers’ best intentions, there will always be a tendency to push the boundaries of the evidence beyond conservative limits, and with that comes greater risk of making claims that ultimately fail to generalize.
    — Mark Louie F. Ramos, STAT, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Many arrive after years of frustration in educational settings that, despite the best intentions of dedicated teachers, could not fully meet their needs.
    — Claudia Nachtigal, Baltimore Sun, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of intentions
Noun
  • Our research and engineering remain world-class, but our record of getting ideas to market and improving how products are made has been less stellar.
    — Rick Lazio, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
  • As the woman in the shop explained to them, and the editors dutifully left in the episode to exonerate them, part of the aesthetic is bridging international ideas of cuteness (or kawaii in Japanese).
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of ideas

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