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want | American Dictionary

want verb [I/T] (DESIRE)

to feel that you would like to have something or would like something to happen:

want verb [I/T] (NEED)

want

Phrasal verb

(Definition of want from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of want

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Even his notes show someone who wants what he says to be clear.

Selecting an out-of-state comparison, if we wanted it, is harder here.

If possible, the constitutionalists wanted to turn back the clock and resurrect the regime that had offered such hope before the war.

Moreover, open rebellion might encourage those who wanted to cast aside the rules of property along with those of politics.

Everything wants to be what it must be.

The cynic wants to know why the individual has rights over against the collective.

Secondly, the discerning observer will find the advocates of population control mainly wanting poor black families to have fewer children.

By 1910 she wanted the party to go all the way and endorse the general strike motion itself.

He wanted political preferment, but could not get it.

After he read them, he no longer wanted to see them.

She wants to know him, in his unique humanity.

Really he wanted to get on with seeking to become a priest.

Far from wanting to create aesthetically pleasing colour combinations, he sought to convey a message about" the human drama" which" transcended self".

We have already seen how the creators of wants, the psychology-manipulators in advertising, had set about trying to undermine it.

Many parents wanted to send their children to grammar schools, but these were ceasing to be available.

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