more desperate
Example Sentences
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Market participants have been desperate for anything resembling good news for weeks, and even more desperate to see concrete steps towards de-escalation, Pepperstone’s Michael Brown said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
As app users become even more desperate for human connection and worse at identifying what’s written by bots, they’ll be pulled toward profiles that are overtly unconventional to avoid being led astray.
From Slate • Jan. 7, 2026
For Churchill, an avid collector of rare and exotic animals, the platypus's intrigue only made him more desperate to have one – or six – for his menagerie.
From BBC • Aug. 2, 2025
“They wrote an email to me seemingly to do face saving, which makes me think they’re more desperate than we think.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2025
The crying boy had begun flipping through the test now—there appeared to be several pages—and with each new page his sobs grew louder and more desperate.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
