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While major-league offenses covet power, their bunt-heavy approach has made them serious championship contenders.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

All this puts it at the heart of Chinese and US economic interests and they actively covet it.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

He is thought to covet the role of chancellor, having spent many years advising Gordon Brown in the Treasury under New Labour.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

For months, they’ve been signaling as if with a searchlight how much they covet the 6-foot-11 Greek forward.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

The animals that covet silence the most are the alligators.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

The reason for what the world might see as a muted response is to preserve the one thing Xi covets for his country: stability.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

Greenland does not need medical assistance from other countries, Denmark's defence minister said Sunday, after US President Donald Trump claimed he was sending a hospital ship to the autonomous Danish territory that he covets.

From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026

Or, according to an erratic transactional logic in which force would no longer serve freedom but replace it, an allied nation: Denmark, whose Greenland he covets?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

Pacifica has played 32 games in the last two seasons and won two section and two regional crowns, just not the ultimate prize it covets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2025

She sighs like I'm bothering her and it's an imposition for her to tell me, but I know she covets the attention.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

And power struggles are more frequent as companies compete in a worldwide treasure hunt for the tech industry’s most coveted resource.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Now she’s in the mix for a coveted best new artist nod at the Grammys.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Beyond the apartment itself, its coveted downtown location places its next owner within easy reach of some of Manhattan’s best-known neighborhoods and attractions.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

There is no question, though, that this week the minister who most starkly signalled change from the previous government was a man who coveted Healey's job - Ed Miliband, who was instead appointed foreign secretary.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

She coveted it and plucked at it whenever she could.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

The kit he’s currently coveting is Qatar Airways’ collaboration with Diptyque, full of beauty offerings from the French perfumer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

But Fernandes is not one for coveting individual awards.

From BBC ● May 8, 2026

It was expensive, but worth every penny — a beautiful, abstract rendering of the film’s themes, displayed in a bewitching graphic style I couldn’t get out of my mind after coveting the poster online.

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2026

Now he is vying for votes in a military-managed poll starting on Sunday, coveting the former seat of the country's best known political prisoner -- Aung San Suu Kyi.

From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025

Normally she drops hints, showing him catalogues, but he has no clue as to what she’s coveting this season, if it’s a new pair of gloves or a wallet or new pajamas she’d like.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri