"set sights" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "sets sights",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "setting sights",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "set sights",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "set sights",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "set one's sights"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007 November 28, Jennifer 8. Lee, “Defending Rights, He Said He Was Marked to Die”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-08-01:",
          "text": "Now the Colombian paramilitaries had set sights on him.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "Alternative form of set one's sights"
      ],
      "id": "en-set_sights-en-verb-ipK5sDHS",
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          "expansion": "[with on]",
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        "(intransitive) Alternative form of set one's sights [with on]"
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "word": "set sights"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sets sights",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "setting sights",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "set sights",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "set sights",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "set sights (third-person singular simple present sets sights, present participle setting sights, simple past and past participle set sights)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "2007 November 28, Jennifer 8. Lee, “Defending Rights, He Said He Was Marked to Die”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-08-01:",
          "text": "Now the Colombian paramilitaries had set sights on him.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "Alternative form of set one's sights"
      ],
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  "word": "set sights"
}