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desirable

[dih-zahyuhr-uh-buhl] / dɪˈzaɪər ə bəl /




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That Roadster—an extensively modified Lotus sports car powered by batteries—proved Tesla’s thesis that electric cars could be fun and desirable, and helped propel the company to making more mainstream vehicles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

At every turn a vision of a better life was made to seem desirable and, just as important, inevitable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Skills that were ordinary in their homeland could have become highly specialized and desirable once they moved south.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

There is little appetite for OATs, which stands for Obligations Assimilables du Tresor and don’t look desirable in any language.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

The rarer and more bizarre an object, the more desirable it was.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman


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