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Per Wayne State School of Law professor Khaled A. Beydoun, “Money drives the yearning for a white contender who can capture the imagination of new audiences and the maximum dollars only whiteness can bring.”

From Salon

The event took social media by storm, with one person commenting on X it was "a historic pop culture moment", while another said the competition "shows that the people yearn for weird town events".

From BBC

If it weren't for getting three Supreme Court justices, the damage he did would be relatively small compared to his destructive yearnings.

From Salon

Jimmy Carter once said, “We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”

Zoe says before her transition, Emilia is an "unredeemable character" but audiences have a "yearning for her redemption".

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

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