desperately
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This is a game Scotland desperately want - and need - to win.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
“Charlie Chaplin desperately tries to get rid of the kid, at the beginning, in these very kind of dangerous and unpleasant ways,” said writer-director Chris Weitz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026
The 11th-century Investiture Controversy left behind a weakened Holy Roman Empire, a fragmented Italy and centuries of European division, at a moment when unity was desperately needed against the Saracens and Turks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel and his unit desperately need all hands on deck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
I desperately wanted to know what she’d done, but if it were possible to ask, I would have done it long ago.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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