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her wishful attempts to change her husband's bad habits
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Zone coverage seems more wishful than actual.
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Pete Sampson, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
In later years, Zionists would express a variety of wishful beliefs about how the Arabs would welcome them.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
Part art, part wishful history, and part showmanship that only careful materials science could puncture.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
In the midst of a national recession, with inflation and unemployment cresting above 10 percent, the bill for a decade of wishful economics and willful mismanagement on the part of New York’s political establishment was inexorably coming due.
—Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025
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Pete Sampson, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
In later years, Zionists would express a variety of wishful beliefs about how the Arabs would welcome them.
—Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
Part art, part wishful history, and part showmanship that only careful materials science could puncture.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
In the midst of a national recession, with inflation and unemployment cresting above 10 percent, the bill for a decade of wishful economics and willful mismanagement on the part of New York’s political establishment was inexorably coming due.
—Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025
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“Wishful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wishful. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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