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Cairo has aspired to become the key gas hub for the region, but its own gas production has decreased in recent years while domestic needs have increased, magnifying its reliance on imported gas from Israel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

Massa, 51, has aspired to the nation’s top job for years, most recently in a 2015 campaign.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 17, 2023

Cadillac has aspired to be mentioned in the same breath as those automakers, but its success at the world’s most storied tracks has been limited.

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2020

FOR almost 80 years the Princeton Evangelical Fellowship has aspired, in the words of its first president, to take a “definite stand for Christ on the campus.”

From Economist • Oct. 12, 2017

He has aspired, that man, I have sometimes supposed myself to be, to the stars; but his feet have also known the burning bottom of the pit.

From In Accordance with the Evidence by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]