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want

noun as in desire

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Example Sentences

The researchers wanted to understand what makes the coexistence of seabird species breeding on the same isolated island possible.

“Sometimes we settle for less than we want ... sometimes we recognize we’re working with a handicap and we’re doing the best we can.”

Jelly Roll, no stranger to the tattooist's art himself, says he wants to give the prince a tattoo on the neck, as the pair are filmed in the East Side Ink tattoo studio.

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She added that the decision to cut the winter fuel payments was "not a decision this government wanted or expected to take".

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"I want to tell these men: at which moment when you enter that bedroom did Ms Pelicot give you consent?"

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When To Use

What are other ways to say want?

The verb want, usually colloquial in use, suggests a feeling of lack or need that imperatively demands fulfillment: People all over the world want peace. Wish implies the feeling of an impulse toward attainment or possession of something; the strength of the feeling may be of greater or lesser intensity: I wish I could go home. Desire, a more formal verb, suggests a strong wish: They desire liberation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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