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
So, even though Explaining Religion did not actually achieve its rather ambitious eponymous goal, it has found some promising avenues of investigation, and led to that great desideratum of science, more research.
From Economist • Apr. 20, 2011
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.
