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desires
noun as in want, longing
Strongest matches
noun as in request
Strong matches
verb as in want, long for
Example Sentences
Kapadia includes a tender love scene between the two, a moment she sees as “everything in support of romance and this girl’s desires — and also freedom.”
She said "he had a penchant for touching and spying on young adolescent boys and his desires were easily satisfied because of the positions he held".
Sharon Palmer laughs as she tells this story, which seems, at first, like your standard cute anecdote, tossed off to humanize a famous daughter — an example of how stubborn kids can be in the pursuit of their desires, proof that years before she became a child star, Keke knew how to get what she wanted.
In this model of governance, Donald Trump is the State; his corrupt desires and various failings of character and morality will be made into official public policy; The American people will have to learn to read and respond to Trump’s moods and mercurial nature and impulses if they want to survive.
But these two desires—for reproductive freedom and another Trump term—are fundamentally contradictory.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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