AMBITIOUS EFFORT collocation | meaning and examples of use (original) (raw)

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meanings of ambitious and effort

ambitious

adjective

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/æmˈbɪʃ.əs/us

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/æmˈbɪʃ.əs/

having a strong wish to be successful, powerful, ...

effort

noun

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/ˈef.ət/us

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/ˈef.ɚt/

physical or mental activity needed to ...

Examples of ambitious effort

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In their mixture of amateurish incompleteness and ambitious effort, the pages bear witness to a conflict.

It is a shame that such an ambitious effort should be marred by serious defects.

This is an ambitious effort, which is key to our future.

This book is the perfect springboard for a more ambitious effort to tell a larger story-based on the analytical rigor of these experiments-about the sustainability of organic farming systems.

Singler (2001) has been the most ambitious effort to date.

This book is an ambitious effort by three well-known and well-respected scholars to fill an acknowledged void in the literature-a text covering the burgeoning field of empirical finance.

It is, though, smartly crafted, highly original in its approach and a strikingly ambitious effort for the genre.

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This ambitious effort involves historic preservation, interpretive exhibits, and a new public facility.

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However, more ambitious efforts to expand the tripartite system resulted in new taxonomic systems of increasing scope and complexity.

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However, more ambitious efforts to expand the tripartite system resulted in new taxonomic systems of increasing complexity.

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The result is overly ambitious efforts which are likely to fail and impose significant costs on innocent people.

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