desideratum
Example Sentences
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Diversity isn’t necessarily an ethical desideratum in a collection.
From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2021
Airports supply the greatest desideratum of physical retail: foot traffic.
From Slate • Sep. 7, 2017
Moreover, our journeys through this maze of quantification are subjected to the most accurate possible computer modelling, with a view to achieving that quintessentially modern desideratum: smooth traffic flow.
From BBC • Jan. 18, 2013
Not a bad fraction of the desideratum, but one that will be hard to sustain in the face of the world’s economic difficulties.
From Economist • Nov. 25, 2010
Those mountains heralded the approach of my desideratum.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
