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desperate search

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desperate
adjective
uk /ˈdes.pər.ət/ us /ˈdes.pɚ.ət/
very serious ...
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search
noun
uk /sɜːtʃ/ us /sɝːtʃ/
an attempt to find someone ...
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Examples of desperate search


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All of these movements were manifestations of a desperatesearch for something to believe in.
There is a desperatesearch on just now.
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They are a party in desperatesearch of a policy.
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In his desperatesearch he has come forward with the new training initiative.
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They have not taken the accommodation on in a desperatesearch for somewhere to live.
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The whiff of corruption and the desperatesearch for multimillionaire donors remain.
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They are destroying what works in their desperatesearch for a spurious novelty.
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The paragraph on finance bears all the hallmarks of an almost desperatesearch for ideas.
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The desperatesearch for a director then took place.
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The film follows the desperatesearch for the saboteur.
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In this year there has been a complete change of climate from a desperatesearch for coal at any price.
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Increasingly, there has been a desperatesearch by the military for ways to continue to make its deterrent more credible.
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In those cases there is a desperatesearch for the kind of accommodation that the family must have.
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The rest of the speeches from the benches opposite have been in the form of a desperatesearch for gloom at any price.
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When his son becomes dangerously ill, he sets off alone in a desperatesearch for water.
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She's an orphan in a desperatesearch for a permanent home.
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Much of the environmental degradation is the result of the desperatesearch by the poor and the landless for such basic needs as fuel, food and water.
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We agree, of course, with these objectives, but we have to point out that, at times, a desperate search for improvements can end up being counterproductive.
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There is a desperatesearch for world markets and national markets, in order that the industry may be able to keep itself afloat by dint of desperate measures.
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He's sentenced to prison but escapes and begins a desperatesearch to find the man who sold him the horses.
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Contacting the other parents, they go on a desperatesearch to find their missing children and put it into context.
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Their life became a rather desperatesearch for pastimes or a gloomy contemplation of their own help- lessness, which, at its worst, was little better than waiting to die.
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In subsequent sections the substantive facts are replaced by a more intimate, desperatesearch for meaning and escape from criminal sanction and permanent addiction.
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Residents of the area and visitors have claimed that they have seen the couple wander the island in their desperatesearch to be rescued.
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Capable of moving and eating on land, they are forced to leave the now barren lake in a desperatesearch for food - animal, vegetable or human.
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