desperate
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In the end Amira and her family decided to flee early in 2025, desperate to find a safer area.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Barring a miracle, those unaccounted for have also died, leaving the families still searching for their loved ones underneath the rubble in a desperate limbo.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
So they set up SPVs to tap in to funding from individual investors who were desperate for a piece of the pie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
An antidote to August ennui: When Byard Duncan began to feel the creep of a midlife crisis, he realized that desperate times call for farcical measures.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
When there was a knock at the door late on the fourth night, I sprinted, desperate for it to be her.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
Vocabulary lists containing desperate
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