most wanted

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a post on X that Shazeer “is one of the people I have most wanted to work with since the very beginning” of OpenAI.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 20, 2026

Marset, a Uruguayan national, was one of the most wanted criminals on the continent.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

In March, the market did experience a broadening many investors had foreseen, though not in the direction most wanted.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

What they most wanted was their sovereignty and their land ownership respected.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2026

Mudd remained calm and did not betray the secret known, at this moment, to him alone: America’s most wanted man was hiding in a farmhouse, less than five miles away!

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson