eagerness
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Bonilla’s agent, Dennis Gilbert, leveraged the Mets’ eagerness to cut ties with his client, getting them to agree to defer payments for 10 years at 8% interest, then spread them over 25 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Signal too much eagerness to cut, and he risks spooking the bond market, driving up long-term yields.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
But you can still discern the same rush, the same eagerness to assume that everything is going to turn out great without taking many steps to make sure that it does.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2026
He suggested the Portugal international was prioritising individual assists glory over the team's interests in his eagerness to set the single-season record.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
Now the old man was looking at him with timid eagerness.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Vocabulary lists containing eagerness
A Single Shard
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The Suffix -ness, Part 1
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Greed
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