desperate
Example Sentences
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Travel nursing has been around for decades but exploded during the pandemic, when hospitals were desperate for staff.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
After his career at Dartmouth was cut short, Ben Rice was desperate to find a place to play.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026
"We knew how desperate people were for a Premier League at Liverpool," said Robertson.
From BBC • May 23, 2026
Anthropic, unlike SpaceX, is desperate for more compute capacity.
From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026
A scruffy shrub fence that was in desperate need of trimming leaned all around it.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
Vocabulary lists containing desperate
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