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