desperation
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“I knew they were in desperation mode and needed to pass the ball,” Tuverson said after the win.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
Hope the credit covers the $6 Diet Coke I took from the minibar in a moment of deadline desperation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Once you really feel that in your bones, then it’s almost like the right doors and the right people start coming in, because you’re sitting in a place of power, not a place of desperation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
He wrote that the fundraiser had been created as "a result of our concern and desperation" after trying "multiple avenues" to locate his stepfather.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Ophie could feel the fear and desperation that radiated off her mother since they’d moved into Daffodil Manor, the same way it had when they rode the train away from Georgia.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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