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  • present participle of lust.

lusting





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It’s that for various reasons, a lot of Americans are lusting after proof that America is good.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

Maybe if people understand how thoroughly an early history of trauma can rewire a brain, they’ll stop lusting for harsh punishments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2023

From Elon Musk to Richard Branson, the wealthiest man on Earth follows a long line of exorbitantly wealthy men lusting for space travel.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2021

Every class also functions as an infomercial for the Peloton line of equipment; I’ve found myself lusting after a Peloton bike just to inch closer to the imagined subject to whom the instructors speak.

From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2021

Buried them under reaching, hating, lusting fiends who fought even among themselves to be first to seize them.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 by Various


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