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aspirant
[ uh-spahyuhr-uhnt, as-per-uhnt ]
noun
- a person who aspires, as one who seeks or desires a career, advancement, status, etc.:
The aspirants for foundation grants had yet to prove themselves.
adjective
- aspiring or seeking to attain something important or of value.
aspirant
/ əˈspaɪərənt; ˈæspɪrənt /
noun
- a person who aspires, as to a high position
adjective
- aspiring or striving
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If Christie was not a presidential aspirant with an anger-management problem, the episode might not even make the list.
Turkey, a NATO member and European Union aspirant, has a long history of jailing journalists and dissenters.
All of this should make any presidential aspirant who would wear his religion on his sleeve step back and take notice.
Now as a presidential aspirant, Sayyaf will have to show a more constructive and moderate side.
This is where the votes are and where aspirant politicians have to aim much of their agenda.
Elder Brewster especially entreated for him, though this strange pulpit aspirant had hoped to supplant him.
I bring this general indictment in order that the eyes of the aspirant may be opened to the opportunities which await her.
Roscoe was an excellent guide to the young aspirant, pointing to the Greeks as the only examples for a sculptor.
Mr. Campbell is a stanch democrat and is commendably interested in public affairs, although not an aspirant for office.
A political aspirant who is forced to decide between his manager and his wife has need of all the philosophy at his command.
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