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Princeton's WordNet

  1. aspirant, aspiring(a), wishfuladjective

    desiring or striving for recognition or advancement

Wikipedia

  1. aspiring

    Mount Aspiring / Tititea is New Zealand's 23rd-highest mountain. It is the country's highest outside the Aoraki / Mount Cook region.

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    Aspiring refers to an individual who has strong ambition or desire to achieve a particular goal or aim in the future. It describes someone who is aiming or seeking to attain something that they currently do not have, usually in terms of career, status, or skills.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Aspiring

    of Aspire

  2. Aspiringadjective

    that aspires; as, an Aspiring mind

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  1. praising

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of aspiring in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of aspiring in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of aspiring in a Sentence

  1. Ben Crump:

    This young man was the kind of son every parent hopes for -- an honor roll student, an aspiring athlete, and a kind-hearted person who cared about others, a fun theme park visit with his football team should not have ended in tragedy.

  2. Paul Valéry:

    Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.

  3. David Fantle:

    … Billie was a farm girl from Iowa that he met in New York as an aspiring entertainer, … She was so grounded. Middle of the country. And Cagney… was not a city kid at heart. He considered himself to be a country boy.

  4. Bobby Montagne:

    In fact, aspiring fix-and-flippers are often better off doing small-scale renovations that just need carpet, paint and some freshening up, especially for their first projects.

  5. Allison Closs:

    As an aspiring filmmaker, it would be huge to be acknowledged by a legend like him.

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