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This may sound ambitiously progressive, but speakers at the September launch emphasized pragmatism and concrete local projects to cut through the nation’s extreme polarization.

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025

He inherited from his father a chain of laundromats that he expanded too ambitiously.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 26, 2025

Whether we settle on an idea like this or not, we should think ambitiously about what a more democratic legislature might look like.

From Slate • Aug. 12, 2025

The aim, ambitiously put, is to "rewire the state" and "get Britain moving".

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2025

Lucrative contracts during the war had greatly enhanced his gains, and he had ambitiously made a present of one of his steamers to the Federal Government, to be called after him, to pursue “rebel pirates.”

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael