desire
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Others spoke to financial hardships, like the desire to buy a home or keep a job.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
The film is a distinctly modern rumination on the desire to shut off and watch the world go by, without forming an opinion on the horrors.
From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026
There would have been absolutely no desire to go through any of it again.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
It’s also born from a desire on the state’s part to collect as many people’s lawful votes as possible.
From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026
But try as she might to care about the elaborate feast they had planned in her honor, she could not shake the desperate desire to be anywhere else.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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