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her wishful attempts to change her husband's bad habits
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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.
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Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025
That Trump has floated the idea of seeking other countries’ cooperation to weaken the dollar—in a wishful bid to boost U.S. exports—only underlines the danger.
—Eswar Prasad, Foreign Affairs, 23 May 2025
The outfit did make sense … mostly in the subject’s wishful and daydreamy mind.
—Deborah Solomon, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Yet like most arguments for historical inevitability, this one is more wishful than accurate.
—Robert Petkoff Krish Seenivasan Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
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Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025
That Trump has floated the idea of seeking other countries’ cooperation to weaken the dollar—in a wishful bid to boost U.S. exports—only underlines the danger.
—Eswar Prasad, Foreign Affairs, 23 May 2025
The outfit did make sense … mostly in the subject’s wishful and daydreamy mind.
—Deborah Solomon, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Yet like most arguments for historical inevitability, this one is more wishful than accurate.
—Robert Petkoff Krish Seenivasan Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
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“Wishful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wishful. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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