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sigh

verb as in long for

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“What you are finding now is that the market is breathing a sigh of relief that the December rate cut is back on the table in a big way,” Mulberry said via phone.

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"But it's temporary," she sighed, standing barefoot in her freshly hoed soil.

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The logistics teams only breathe a sigh of relief once every street is clean, the traffic lights are returned, and the pageant of the parade is across the Lincoln Tunnel.

After months of anxious waiting business may then breathe a collective sigh of relief.

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Wall Street, meanwhile, breathed a massive sigh of relief.

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

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