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her wishful attempts to change her husband's bad habits
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Elements of the Bores plan seem wishful (like a call for the sorts of job-retraining programs that were promised to mitigate offshoring and seem unlikely to mitigate sweeping automation) or unrigorous (like a technical solution to deepfakes that experts say has been, thus far, a failure).
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 7 May 2026
Stocks fell from their records Thursday after oil prices yo-yoed as Wall Street waits to see whether its hopes for a deal to end the Iran war are warranted or just wishful.
—Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
Not everything is accepted in our curbside recycle bins, and wishful recycling often leads to contamination.
—Rae Ford, Martha Stewart, 7 Apr. 2026
Their thinking, however, is wishful.
—Philip H. Gordon, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 7 May 2026
Stocks fell from their records Thursday after oil prices yo-yoed as Wall Street waits to see whether its hopes for a deal to end the Iran war are warranted or just wishful.
—Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
Not everything is accepted in our curbside recycle bins, and wishful recycling often leads to contamination.
—Rae Ford, Martha Stewart, 7 Apr. 2026
Their thinking, however, is wishful.
—Philip H. Gordon, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
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“Wishful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wishful. Accessed 13 May. 2026.
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