desperate
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"Investors are still desperate for anything bolted to AI infrastructure, especially if it sits close to the high-bandwidth memory bottleneck."
From Barron's • Jul. 10, 2026
If a retiree is not desperate for the income at 62, the common advice is to wait and receive higher payments later.
From MarketWatch • Jul. 10, 2026
That’s where local government officials are in a delightfully desperate scramble to cut spending.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 9, 2026
The wedding, this theory goes, was payback for 20 years’ worth of media that characterized her as desperate and lovelorn and having only herself to blame for boyfriends who wilted under the media’s gaze.
From Salon • Jul. 9, 2026
Even something in her tone was familiar now, a desperate hope that tickled the edges of Clare’s memory.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Vocabulary lists containing desperate
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