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 Should Newsom — who has aspirations to the White House — sign the bill, the state’s accounting boffins will have to find a way to fund it. — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2026 The Twins are 8-17 in August as their playoff aspirations continue to fade. — ABC News, 29 Aug. 2026 India’s economic ambitions, military planning, and technological aspirations all, to some degree, now revolve around the United States. — C. Raja Mohan, Foreign Affairs, 27 Aug. 2026 When Hannah’s dad, Kent, told a coworker about his daughter’s aspirations, that led to a call from Jim Sundberg. — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 27 Aug. 2026 Jacksonville has paid Lawrence like a franchise-altering quarterback, built around him and attached its championship aspirations to his right arm. — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2026 Parton moved to Nashville after high school to pursue her music aspirations. — CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026 Gone is the callow rage and aspirations of badassery that prompted them to write Leviathan about Moby-Dick. — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2026 Heat president Pat Riley has long believed the teams with championship aspirations need older veterans around their core, players with the savviness, mettle and experience to thrive during harrowing postseason moments. — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 23 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for aspirations
  1. goals
  2. purposes
  3. plans
  4. ambitions
  5. aims
  6. objectives
  7. intentions
  8. ideas
Noun
  • Boise’s City Council on Tuesday denied an appeal from the Cathedral of the Rockies seeking to pave a parking area adjacent to its North End church, dealing a blow to an application that pit arguments of religious freedom against municipal goals.
    — Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 3 Sep. 2026
  • One of the goals behind the Lele pop-up for Uditi, who grew up in Caserta, outside of Naples, was to highlight the cuisine of his native Campania.
    — Margy Rochlin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of goals
Noun
  • By the end of Saturday night, the sanctuary had served two purposes at once.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 3 Sep. 2026
  • The other scan—the spatial scan—employs a less powerful instrument called an Xgrid Portalcam, and serves several different purposes.
    — Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of purposes
Noun
  • Once the moon enters Gemini, conversations will pick up speed as plans become more flexible.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 3 Sep. 2026
  • That includes its previous plans to commit more than $10 billion to autonomous vehicles in the coming years.
    — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of plans
Noun
  • The company was founded in 2014 with high ambitions and the backing of a Chinese billionaire.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Once upon a time, Herzog was the crazy visionary, determined at all costs to realize his aesthetic ambitions to feel more, to see deeper, to explore the madness of the world, a bit of a holy fool himself.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of ambitions
Noun
  • Another official argument is that terrorism generally involves political or ideological aims, while cartels primarily are motivated by profit.
    — María Verza, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • As wartime demand grows, private companies often feel compelled to take part in military ventures or dual-use projects that serve military aims.
    — Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of aims
Noun
  • Their messages suggested coordination rather than isolated attempts to complete individual objectives.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2026
  • This might be Anaheim’s last, best chance at satisfying those objectives.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of objectives
Noun
  • The leader of the United Kingdom’s Green Party has announced his intentions to run for the seat in Parliament vacated by former Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 3 Sep. 2026
  • There were good intentions behind the concept, but a chunk of viewers left the program — and have not come back.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of intentions
Noun
  • The new experiment tested those competing ideas by deliberately weakening the electron interactions.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026
  • If Hilton defies the odds this November, his ideas are all but certain to get a frosty reception in what’s likely to be a Democratic supermajority in the Legislature.
    — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of ideas

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“Aspirations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aspirations. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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