desired
Example Sentences
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Reducing your stock holdings will return your portfolio to your desired equity-to-bond ratio.
However, given the stigma around the property, a sale at his desired price might be a tough hill to climb.
From MarketWatch
But he adds: "I worry that dismissing 'willpower' makes it too easy to resign oneself to being at a weight that may not be what is desired, or best for health."
From BBC
Gu's research focused on designing bonds that stay strong during use but become easier to break later when degradation is desired.
From Science Daily
When he reached New York, he enrolled in a yeshiva to resume his Talmud studies—as his parents would have desired—but soon left after finding he could no longer accept all of the doctrines.
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