desirable
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"Heavy" rare earths, which are more difficult to mine and more highly desirable, are largely sourced outside the United States.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
Some of the most popular new technologies were designed to take over the least desirable jobs in warehouses, tasks that require physical labor like loading and unloading trucks or picking merchandise for online orders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
"I've previously said that it would be a good idea to look at the overall workload of probation and consider what are the essential things that they need to be doing, not what's desirable."
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Fashion has a long history of turning provocation, rebellion and even criticism of the industry itself into something desirable — and expensive.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
They were mostly self-pollinating: that is, the crop varieties could pollinate themselves and pass on their own desirable genes unchanged, instead of having to hybridize with other varieties less useful to humans.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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