as in desire
sexual appetite a story about a detective with a nose for crime and a lech for women
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Part of it was a desire to stick things out with his teammates.—
Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 25 Apr. 2026
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The team wanted to keep Phillips and even engaged in conversations with Trey Hendrickson, showing the desire for a high-level edge rusher to join Jalyx Hunt and Nolan Smith in the top three.— Jeff Howe, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
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The National Conflict Resolution Center has hosted this event for 38 years now, to recognize individuals and organizations working with passion and purpose toward a better future for all Americans.— Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
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Ducks fans expected the postseason and embraced it with a passion that rocked Honda Center during 12 playoff trips in a 15-season span, including two trips to the Stanley Cup Final and the 2007 championship.— Todd Harmonson, Oc Register, 25 Apr. 2026
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Love, or maybe lust, is on the brain as Mars enters Aries.— USA TODAY, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
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Whale lusts after a hunky gardener (Brendan Fraser) and persuades him to pose for a few sketches; Julian, though bisexual, expresses no such interest in Lori, and any art-making turns out to be a gratifyingly mutual endeavor.— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
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Side effects include nausea, dizziness, numbness, dumbness, Dementias, deletions, leeches, letches, hexes, hoaxes, hocus-pocuses, And, if there is justice, spiritual, moral, federal, state, & local charges.— Terrance Hayes, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
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Men who preyed on younger women were called letches, cradle-robbers, dogs.— Jill Ciment, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
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