desire

"I have no desire or ambition to be president of FIFA. That doesn't excite me," he said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

Memory, desire and moral evasion all complicate the inquiry: It’s pointless, Sammy suggests, “to say that each consciousness is a whole world because each consciousness is a dozen worlds.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Rose does none of that — she just suddenly deeply wants a baby, and that desire is vivid in the text.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

They showed the sort of guts and desire we want to see from these teams that gained the opportunity to play at a World Cup because of the expanded format.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

She knew as soon as the light was gone and their eyes readjusted they’d begin their search, and she had no desire to be around for that.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

It twists away as if to say that human narratives, desires and destinies are annoying no matter who they belong to.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

"It's a story of someone who dared to dream, and I want people to take this example and motivate themselves to be very ambitious and to go for whatever their heart desires."

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

But as much as she smothers her desires, others can sense them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

Seeing the accumulation of other people’s innermost desires in the trees — and given that the wishes are uncovered — lends the work an openness and accessibility that can be therapeutic, Loyer said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026

And why should we go hunting for a substitute for youthful desires, when youthful desires never fail?

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Each time you open a pack of Pokémon cards, you don’t know what you’re going to get, maybe a low-rated Wishiwashi or a highly desired Charizard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026

He used the AI assistant Claude to crib these from the desired skills listed in job postings for the kinds of roles he was targeting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

Housing limitations — such as lack of space or high costs — were cited as a barrier to having as many children as desired by 15% of Americans in the United Nations Population Fund poll.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026

They then performed a mid-circuit quantum measurement on the internal state, causing the ion's motion to collapse into the desired superposition of nonclassical components.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 2026

My own skills left something to be desired, but I was working on it.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

Huckabee reportedly told embassy staff in an email there was "no need to panic, but for those desiring to leave, it's important to make plans to depart sooner rather than later".

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026

The motivations for septuagenarian entrepreneurs include desiring autonomy, pursuing meaningful projects and addressing societal needs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025

That’s when someone falsely accuses one’s perceived opponents of conducting, plotting or desiring to commit the same transgressions that one plans to commit or is already committing.

From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2025

She had a predilection for painting women as modern, urban, desiring.

From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2024

That night she danced he was already a dead man, a living dead man who sucked life from the living, desiring and hating it even as he took it.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko