- ache for something
- acquisitive
- ambitious
- ambitiously
- angle for something
- desperate
- expense
- fancy
- have your eye on something idiom
- hunger
- hunger after/for something
- hungrily
- pine
- seeker
- set your heart on something/doing something idiom
- set your sights on something idiom
- shook
- shopping list
- sight
- someone's heart's desire idiom
Meaning of wannabe in English
(Definition of wannabe from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of wannabe
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Lots of wannabe entrepreneurs have no concept of how current technology works.
From Business Insider
Of course, all it takes is one wannabe speed demon rushing to the red to mess up the works.
From Phys.Org
Other wannabe franchises haven't come close to that.
From Plain Dealer
But after a rocky start, she has learned that starting and running a small enterprise is harder than some wannabes think.
From TIME
The escalation wasn't lost on the world of rappers and wannabe thugs looking for male jewelry: a super-lethal fashion statement.
What he discovered might make some wannabe chief executives reconsider their ambitions.
From CNN
He was mentoring 22-year-old wannabes and 29-year-old has-beens, and although the work was rewarding, he was still lonely, still missing something.
From ESPN
You can't tell the billionaires from the wannabes, the gawkers, from the gawked-at, the exhibitionists from the exhibitions.
From CBS News
For the day comes when wannabes, or at least a small percentage of them, are published.
There are wannabe king pins growing acres in the woods that would just as happily get licensed.
From TIME
In the film, trolls are both real and the government totally knows about them, but average citizens -- and young, camera-toting wannabe documentarians -- have no clue.
From Gizmodo
What we have right now is a group of wannabe winners, most with serious asterisks.
From Foreign Policy
What are the mayoral wannabes going to do about it?
From New York Daily News
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