"aspiring" meaning in English

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          "text": "Aspiring pop stars lined up for hours just to audition.",
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          "ref": "1910, Emma Goldman, “Anarchism”, in Anarchism, and Other Essays, New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, page 70:",
          "text": "Time and time again the people were foolish enough to trust, believe, and support with their last farthing aspiring politicians, only to find themselves betrayed and cheated.",
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          "ref": "2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, chapter 16, in This Mournable Body, Minneapolis: Graywolf Press:",
          "text": "Here three aspiring young seamstresses—diplomas in dressmaking from the People’s College of Zimbabwe hung on the wall—bicker and scowl at each other.",
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        "Hoping to become."
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          "ref": "1661, Joseph Glanvill, chapter 22, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing, London: Henry Eversden, pages 214–215:",
          "text": "[…] if we contemplate a vegetable in its material principle, and look on it as made of earth; we must have the true Theory of the nature of that Element, or we miserably fail of our Scientifical aspirings,",
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          "text": "1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 44, 18 August, 1750, in Volume 2, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, pp. 83-84,\n[…] to the aspirings of unassuming trust, and filial confidence, are set no bounds."
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          "ref": "1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, London: C. and J. Ollier, Canto 4, stanza 12, p. 81:",
          "text": "From whatsoe’er my wakened thoughts create\nOut of the hopes of thine aspirings bold,\nHave I collected language to unfold\nTruth to my countrymen;",
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