desperate
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It’s an unusually unglamorous, tightly wound performance, one that allows Johansson to disappear into an ordinary woman’s increasingly desperate circumstances.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
"Though very unsettling, The End of Everything is not in fact a strange book. It's a realist book about a strange world, populated by desperate, unmoored characters."
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
Investors desperate to buy in to popular IPOs accepted special votes for founders that give them control through special classes of shares.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
She posed dirtied, disheveled and apparently desperate in front of a spotless stoop — then hit post on Instagram.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
I thrashed my limbs in desperate abandon as it streamed into my nose and mouth, stifling me, seeping into my very pores, weighing me down.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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