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wan

[won] / wɒn /


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For each of those successes, there are several messy misfires: The wan camp of “The Politician.”

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2026

Our mother did reappear, looking wan and smiling bravely, and we had to pretend that she was fine.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025

When we drove by the family home, I tasted her cabbage omelet and the gong wan that she made from scratch.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2024

But this show is too slight, too wan, to bear the weight of analytical dissection.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2024

Belmonte looked ahead, his face wan and yellow, his long wolf jaw out.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway




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