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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"It broke my heart because I have five kids of my own," neighbor and volunteer Brittany Matney told WISH.
From Fox News • Nov. 28, 2021
Jeremy Sweet told officers Emma had been with him, according to WISH.
From Fox News • Nov. 28, 2021
“We’re all shook to our core and we all feel the need to have something change,” she told a local TV station, WISH.
From Washington Post • Apr. 17, 2021
LIANA'S WISH, who likes to finish second and third, draws the inside post and should be involved late with a ground-saving trip.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 29, 2010
Leonard Hayflick had an especially personal connection with his cell line, WISH, which Gartler had listed as contaminated: he’d grown it using cells from the amniotic sac in which his unborn daughter had once floated.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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