wish
Usage
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To wish is to feel an impulse toward attainment or possession of something; the strength of the feeling may be of greater or lesser intensity: I wish I could go home. Desire, a more formal verb, suggests a strong wish: They desire liberation. Want, usually colloquial in use, suggests a feeling of lack or need that imperatively demands fulfillment: People all over the world want peace.
Example Sentences
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“We both wish I could cover you,” Barrett told Kahn in an email, apparently referring to how he wished he could still work with Epstein as a JPMorgan client.
Leah told supporters that she and her sisters would never follow such scandalous directions, no matter what their spirit friends wished.
From Literature
It’s a strong argument and I wish the film had continued to make it.
From Los Angeles Times
Danielle explained how she spoke to Roberts, who said to her, "I wish I wasn't that person that did that".
From BBC
The hirsute libertarian, using leverage from his midterm elections triumph in October, just massaged labor reform legislation through Congress, delivering one of the Big Three structural reforms on markets’ wish list.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
