wish away
phrasal verb
wished away; wishing away; wishes away
: to cause (something) to stop or go away just by wanting it to stop or go away
You can't just wish your problems away.
Examples of wish away in a Sentence
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Yet the program’s structural defects can’t be wished away.
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Editorial, Boston Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
These are not matters to be wished away by his single creative education proposal: ending mayoral control of the schools.
—David Bloomfield, New York Daily News, 13 July 2025
But Congress can’t wish away what’s happening out in the world — and crypto is happening.
—Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 10 June 2025
Nonetheless, the financial repercussions from the mounting federal pressures have become too substantial to ignore or wish away, forcing a growing number of the nation’s largest universities to adopt new austerity measures.
—Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
There is no wishing away Moscow’s signature on, and ratification of, the September 1990 treaty that allowed NATO’s jurisdiction to move eastward across the Cold War– era frontline.
—Foreign Affairs, 9 Apr. 2025
But simply wishing away nuclear missiles will get us nowhere.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
But such a wrong turn ignores the long-unresolved problems of radioactive nuclear wastes that AI cannot wish away.
—Michael Riordan, Scientific American, 31 Jan. 2025
The French official was wishing away the passthrough effect; Maryland lawmakers have blocked it legislatively.
—Robert Goulder, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
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Editorial, Boston Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
These are not matters to be wished away by his single creative education proposal: ending mayoral control of the schools.
—David Bloomfield, New York Daily News, 13 July 2025
But Congress can’t wish away what’s happening out in the world — and crypto is happening.
—Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 10 June 2025
Nonetheless, the financial repercussions from the mounting federal pressures have become too substantial to ignore or wish away, forcing a growing number of the nation’s largest universities to adopt new austerity measures.
—Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
There is no wishing away Moscow’s signature on, and ratification of, the September 1990 treaty that allowed NATO’s jurisdiction to move eastward across the Cold War– era frontline.
—Foreign Affairs, 9 Apr. 2025
But simply wishing away nuclear missiles will get us nowhere.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
But such a wrong turn ignores the long-unresolved problems of radioactive nuclear wastes that AI cannot wish away.
—Michael Riordan, Scientific American, 31 Jan. 2025
The French official was wishing away the passthrough effect; Maryland lawmakers have blocked it legislatively.
—Robert Goulder, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2024
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“Wish away.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wish%20away. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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