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coveting







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The kit he’s currently coveting is Qatar Airways’ collaboration with Diptyque, full of beauty offerings from the French perfumer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Now he is vying for votes in a military-managed poll starting on Sunday, coveting the former seat of the country's best known political prisoner -- Aung San Suu Kyi.

From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025

She recalls coveting a particular 1960s-inspired trouser suit as a teenager.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024

While these acquisition targets never came to fruition, the emails show Microsoft’s years of coveting Activision Blizzard leading up to its $69-billion proposed acquisition last January.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2023

“Mondele, he wasn’t asking for three thousand zaires,” Elisabet said quietly when we’d moved on to coveting the pineapples.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver


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