self-advancement
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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But his most obvious and disqualifying flaw is that he has no observable principles beyond dedication to his own self-advancement.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2024
It’s a tool one uses for self-advancement and self-preservation.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
Yes, Dovlatov and his friends had essentially no hope of official recognition, of being able to do work that both held meaning for them and fit with the paths for self-advancement on offer.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 15, 2018
Moving from Ulster to London in 1679 to study medicine, he developed a talent for self-advancement.
From Nature ● May 23, 2017
In business, more perhaps than in any other walk of life, self-preservation and self-advancement were at that time, not alone the first, but the only fixed law.
From The Message by Brock, H. M. (Henry Matthew)
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