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• Bad Bunny’s tour may be the most ambitious for a Latin artist ever in the U.S.
  — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 24 Jan. 2022
• Over a year later, that plan may have been too ambitious for at least one partner.
  — Bynicholas Gordon, Fortune, 11 July 2023
• The result — and small moments like the fans’ sassy chant — sent the message that the United States was ascendant and ambitious for more.
  — Andrew Keh, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2022
• The recipes have been scaled down and simplified for a home kitchen, though some will likely still feel too ambitious for weeknight fare.
  — Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2021
• Risk Ledger is ambitious for the long term, but is evolving its value proposition in steps.
  — David Prosser, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• The Angels plan to use six starting pitchers, which is quite ambitious for a team that struggles every year to find two or three.
  — New York Times, 29 Mar. 2021
• But in Disney’s non-streaming world pre-2019, the ideas Gilroy came up with seemed too costly and ambitious for television.
  — David Betancourt, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
• Both my parents were very ambitious for me, which was unusual.
  — New York Times, 24 Dec. 2021
• Artemis program has been called ambitious for its goal of returning humans to Earth’s moon as early as 2024.
  — Leonard David, Scientific American, 24 June 2020
• If a trip out to Yellowstone seems a little too ambitious for your tastes, be sure to check out the list below—there might be a bison herd found just beyond your backyard.
  — Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• If all that is too ambitious for the summer, the networks could get the folks who do Hallmark and Lifetime telepics to churn out some cost-effective pulp fiction or quickie biopics for the summer.
  — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 1 July 2021
• And its look at Shanice’s state of mind feels rooted in potential to do something at least somewhat ambitious for a teen-centric network.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 25 Oct. 2021
• Then again maybe this age is making people ambitious for different things.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 28 July 2022
• The short version of the story appears to be that the Gen3 changes might have been too ambitious for the suppliers who won the tenders to deliver them, particularly the new battery pack.
  — James Morris, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
• If that’s still a little too ambitious for you, start with Brambleberry’s simple translucent base.
  — Good Housekeeping, 5 June 2020
• Democrats now control both the House and (just barely) the Senate, but the vote could be delayed due to the upcoming impeachment trial and the plan may be too ambitious for full-on bipartisan support.
  — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 15 Jan. 2021
• But even this No. 25 rating could be overly ambitious for a team coming off a losing record, with coach Jimbo Fisher on the hot seat and uncertainty on offense.
  — USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2023
• This all might sound overly ambitious for what is effectively the replacement for the unassuming ILX.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 26 May 2022
• This point total seems a bit ambitious for Thompson, despite his 20.4 points per game scoring average this season.
  — Xl Media, cleveland, 18 May 2022
• But raised expectations and standards — after winning its first sectional title in 10 years and just third in school history — mean the goal’s not too ambitious for the Highlanders.
  — David J. Kim, The Courier-Journal, 18 Aug. 2020
• His mother was loving, controlling, independently wealthy, and very ambitious for her son.
  — Robert MacFarlane, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2020
• If this project sounds awfully ambitious for a guy who made his bones in venture capital and real estate investments, consider this: Dawejko has hired a talented roster of chefs and cooks for Tomlinson.
  — Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2021
• Net zero is particularly ambitious for a company like Amazon, given its historical compound growth rate has been a staggering 31% per year over the last 20 years.
  — Tima Bansal, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
• Juggling demands of last-minute witnesses and complications of picking a jury for a death penalty case has attorneys and Judge Elizabeth Scherer realizing May 31 was too ambitious for a start date.
  — Victoria Ballard, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Apr. 2022
• Unity’s big step into domains previously considered overly ambitious for a game company portends a future in which game companies will join the ranks of broader tech companies.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 18 Jan. 2022
• Nolasco is ambitious for Twinco’s future, eyeing opportunities to increase its influence with its existing client base but also to go further.
  — David Prosser, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• Sadly, his words reflected only his presidential ambitious for 2024.
  — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024