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Most seem to have been aspiring to emulate the musical “Cabaret” rather than the invasion of Poland.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

I have been aspiring to great honours since I wrote to you last, to wit the F.R.S., and found no little to my astonishment that I had a chance of it, and so went in.

From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 by Huxley, Thomas Henry

He would have been aspiring in imagination, although he was not ambitious by character.

From Raphael Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty by Lamartine, Alphonse de