more desperate
Example Sentences
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As app users become even more desperate for human connection and worse at identifying what’s written by bots, they’ll be pulled toward profiles that are overtly unconventional to avoid being led astray.
From Slate • Jan. 7, 2026
Even if diplomacy brings a truce rather than an enduring peace, stopping the fighting on almost any terms looks better than prolonging a war that grows ever more desperate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025
“They wrote an email to me seemingly to do face saving, which makes me think they’re more desperate than we think.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2025
There have been weeks of stern, and sometimes fiery, rhetoric where each side sought to paint the other as the more desperate party.
From BBC • May 9, 2025
It made her all the more desperate to leave; heights always made her crave her wings.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
