See ambition on Wiktionary
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"text": "That young man is full of ambition and will make a great leader someday."
},
{
"text": "Sometimes our ambition drives us to do things that we shouldn't."
}
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"If you have ambition, then you have a want to accomplish (complete) a task."
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