How to Use aspirational in a Sentence
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Who wouldn’t want to receive a gift that makes cleaning the kitchen feel aspirational?
— Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2022 -
My feed, and lots of other people’s too, became less food journal, more aspirational look book.
— Elazar Sontag, Bon Appétit, 11 Mar. 2022 -
This moment is supposed to feel redemptive, or aspirational, or at the very least triumphant.
— Angela Watercutter, Wired, 14 Feb. 2022 -
But when asked about Kalra’s bill last month, Newsom cast single-payer as a more aspirational goal.
— Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2022 -
Berlin, a bustling, aspirational city often compared to New York, offers a glimpse at what may happen here.
— New York Times, 11 Feb. 2022 -
The work is hard, making things that don’t exist and convincing people that what feels aspirational is actually doable.
— Ashish K. Jha, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2022 -
The design process began by evaluating the aspirational aspects of the project and the functional items required to reach these goals.
— Kody Boye, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2024 -
While tasting rooms in Napa Valley are aspirational for most of the country, hosting an at-home wine tasting shouldn’t be.
— Paul Calandrella, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024 -
Clearly, the metaverse remains aspirational, but that hasn’t stopped companies across the spectrum from making plans for engaging with it.
— Ritwija Darbari, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2022 -
Chetak scooter became an aspirational symbol for India’s middle class.
— Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 13 Feb. 2022 -
Yet day-to-day metropolitan governance is far from aspirational.
— Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Feb. 2022 -
Anytime the award-winning actress crosses our feeds it’s either for a stellar performance, those ever-aspirational arms or because the face card continues to be top tier.
— Blake Newby, Essence, 28 Feb. 2022 -
How much of what 'Sort Of' depicts is true to life for you and how much is aspirational?
— Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 11 Dec. 2022 -
That was an – hold on one second- that was an aspirational ask.
— Nbc Universal, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2023 -
Their clothes are not just aspirational, but also bait — to catch the right fish.
— Tilly Lawless, refinery29.com, 13 Dec. 2022 -
But many of these projects improve the lives of the wealthy, the upper-middle class, and the aspirational middle class.
— Salil Tripathi, TIME, 5 June 2024 -
Like so much else offered at the Two Sessions, the talk was all aspirational.
— Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024 -
This is an act of love to be well informed and to think about aspirational fairness.
— NBC News, 26 Aug. 2022 -
Even the model names sound both aspirational and bland: the Telluride, the Sierra, the Sequoia.
— Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 2 Oct. 2024 -
The deal was in a sense aspirational, since Tactic Homes didn’t have the capital to buy all those kits.
— Joe Rubin, The New Republic, 21 July 2022 -
The more hopeful message at the end is more aspirational.
— Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2023 -
One is that many of the goals were set as extremely aspirational.
— Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 12 Sep. 2022 -
Leff talks about how the designs are aspirational and, at the same time, pieces are purchased from clients each season.
— Shelley E. Kohan, Forbes, 6 May 2022 -
Daniel Ash of Love and Rockets has an aspirational style.
— Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 17 Sep. 2024 -
But like many of the CEO's proclamations, the timelines are more than aspirational.
— Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 6 Aug. 2024 -
From that point on, kids could play with a doll modeled after a teen or adult who had a range of aspirational careers.
— Maressa Brown, Parents, 25 July 2023 -
But the judges did all agree that ending the aspirational table with oysters was a thoughtful touch.
— Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 29 May 2024 -
Imagining what your brand might be in the future is key as an aspirational true north.
— Erik Oberholtzer, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2022 -
And for audiences of all stripes, as was the talent of the late Sidney Poitier, Bassett is the aspirational apex.
— Zandria Robinson, Glamour, 25 Oct. 2022 -
The two justices’ views suggest that the gun-rights movement might not have five votes to read some of its most aspirational hopes for the Second Amendment.
— Matt Ford, The New Republic, 23 June 2022
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