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At night, K Street is a bustling corridor of aspiringly high-end nightclubs and restaurants.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2022

It was better to perform aspiringly and attractively and lose than to perform conservatively and win.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2018

There’s the quirky lullaby that Tom used to croon to his infant daughters; the lyrical compositions of Carver and Ray and an aspiringly cheerful singalong in Tom’s kitchen halfway through the show.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2017

It was wooded at the top; below, the ranks of a cornfield sloped aspiringly up its base.

From Diana by Warner, Susan

He was still in the intermediate stage between horse and donkey, a natural mule still struggling up aspiringly toward perfect horsehood.

From Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Allen, Grant