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wanted
adjective as in cherished
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“I wanted to hit the ball over the shortstop’s head,” Gibson would say later.
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Anyway, there was a lot of stuff going on then, and we wanted all of it in the show.”
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Ana says she wanted something the neighborhood kids could experience for free.
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"He used to get himself into a lot of pickles… but everybody loved him, everybody wanted to spend time with him."
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"We all wanted to look like Audrey Hepburn," she later told her biographer, "but I wasn't attractive and nobody fancied me."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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