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adj. hoping to become

v. Present participle of aspire.

adj. That aspires.

Animated with an ardent desire, as of power, importance, or excellence; ambitious; soaring: as, “aspiring nobles,” Macaulay, Hist. Eng., i.

Rising; towering or soaring.

adj. desiring or striving for recognition or advancement

"Def Jam was the label aspiring rappers grew up listening to, and Simmons was the original hip-hop entrepreneur, its Henry Ford."

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acquiring    admiring    conspiring    expiring    firing    hiring    inspiring    perspiring    quiring    rehiring