How to Use aspirational in a Sentence

aspirational

adjective
Definition of aspirationalnext
  • Three out of four firms that build aspirational agentic architectures on their own will fail.
    — Forrester, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
  • King: In this future, all that aspirational language does not exist.
    — Marie Southard Ospina, SELF, 11 Jan. 2022
  • The country is one of its largest markets for iPhones, where the brand remains aspirational and premium-priced.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 20 Jan. 2022
  • This modern mass apathy is a far cry from the Stoic’s aspirational apatheia.
    — Marion Renault, The New Republic, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Anything else, early next week or beyond, remains aspirational.
    — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
  • However, the Metaverse is aspirational at this point, not a reality.
    — Hod Fleishman, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The Clintons’ classes are intended to be inspirational and aspirational, with a salting of common sense.
    — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The backstage interlude evokes both the glamour of movies and the glamour of making movies — how both the product and production in Hollywood is aspirational.
    — Kathryn Vandervalk, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The signature look of the Unifrom comes in roll-on pens that resemble the shiny and aspirational high-rises that would glisten along the New York City skyline.
    — Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • Who wouldn’t want to receive a gift that makes cleaning the kitchen feel aspirational?
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 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
  • Their style seems equal parts approachable and aspirational and always just a tad out of whack.
    — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 19 June 2023
  • There is a kind of word magic or aspirational future self.
    — Emma Madden, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2023

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