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The exhibition, "American Aspirations," is housed in a vaulted red sandstone hall inside the grand Smithsonian Castle, the institute's original premises on the National Mall.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

"Aspirations for a better future must also make peace with the past through restoration of Indigenous and traditional sovereignty over lands and waters."

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026

The Aspirations stock that Drake, Downey Jr., and some 250 other investors held was almost certainly worthless.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025

Aspirations go as far back as 1923 for a London to Birmingham route, but it took until the Special Roads Act 1949 was passed to allow the first motorways to be planned in the 1950s.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2024

Aspirations were in the air all round, like a lot of hungry ghosts.

From The Island Pharisees by Galsworthy, John