lack/want for nothing

phrase

: to have everything one needs
Their children lack/want for nothing.

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Only a few weeks into official business, the housekeeping and food and beverage teams are at the top of their game, answering questions, recalling dietary restrictions, and ensuring members and renters alike want for nothing. Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2026 The other seems to want for nothing, including a new operations building set to open next year and an NIL budget that sits at the sport’s adults table. Pete Sampson, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2025 Best to just give in, dandily living in the game’s excesses; we’re being treated like gods here, left to want for nothing more. Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025 Both Monaco and Palm Beach understand what their guests seek in terms of posh digs and attentive service, and guests will want for nothing. Kathleen Turner, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025 There’s also this silliness, our awareness of the absurdity of these people who want for nothing, all of whom are, in so many ways, causing their own problems. Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Oct. 2023 The new movies are built primarily for those who want for nothing more than endless references, footnotes, in-jokes, Easter eggs, cute callbacks, breadcrumbs and vague shapes of things to come. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2022 Between the company to the generous tins of caviar dolled out to everyone in attendance, the guests could really want for nothing. Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 10 Nov. 2021

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“Lack/want for nothing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lack%2Fwant%20for%20nothing. Accessed 26 Jul. 2026.

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