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  • past participle of wish.
  • past tense form of wish.

wished







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Leave college, keep the network: “Not once” does Guo say she wished she’d taken more courses at Carnegie Mellon.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

None of the employees contacted by AFP wished to comment on the site's future.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

Newcastle said they wished Guimaraes and his family well.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

I think Robby went home and wished that he had the capacity to be someone who could have taken that baby home for a little while.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Except I ran in exactly the opposite direction from where I wished to go.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff




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