desire to
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v.t./i.Verb (Transitive/Intransitive)To strongly want or wish for something.
I desire to travel the world someday.
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Capitalism and Socialism: Crash Course World History #33
- and that this was actually a good thing because the desire to consume manufactured goods could spur economic growth.
and that this was actually a good thing because the desire to consume manufactured goods could spur economic growth.
- because the desire to consume manufactured goods
because the desire to consume manufactured goods
How to Survive a Building Explosion
- When in crisis, humans naturally desire to hold their breath.
When in crisis, humans naturally desire to hold their breath.
- humans naturally desire to hold their breath.
humans naturally desire to hold their breath.
The Science of Pornography Addiction (SFW)
- The brain is often described as a use it or lose it system because the neural connections you stimulate grow stronger and desire to be activated while the ones you ignore become weakened.
The brain is often described as a use it or lose it system because the neural connections you stimulate grow stronger and desire to be activated while the ones you ignore become weakened.
- The brain is often described as a "use-it-or-lose-it" system because the neural connections you stimulate grow stronger and desire to be activated, while the ones you ignore become weakened.
The brain is often described as a "use-it-or-lose-it" system because the neural connections you stimulate grow stronger and desire to be activated, while the ones you ignore become weakened.
Being childfree by choice: five women on why they decided not to have kids
- In middle school, one of my friends, she said she never had the desire to have kids
In middle school, one of my friends, she said she never had the desire to have kids
Why these all-white paintings are in museums and mine aren't
- And there was a lot of desire to get away from that sensibility where the individual's expression was put into the canvas.
And there was a lot of desire to get away from that sensibility where the individual's expression was put into the canvas.
The Vocabulary Show: Travel ✈️✈️✈️ Learn 27 words and expressions about travel in 12 minutes!
- So Carly has worked somewhere for two years and she's getting a little bored, and she starts feeling a strong desire to go somewhere new to try something different, to travel, to explore.
So Carly has worked somewhere for two years and she's getting a little bored, and she starts feeling a strong desire to go somewhere new to try something different, to travel, to explore.
- If you have the 'travel bug', you have a strong desire to travel again.
If you have the 'travel bug', you have a strong desire to travel again.
What's the Truth About the First Thanksgiving?
- Instead, they expressed a fervent desire to pay the natives for the dried corn they found, if only they could find someone to pay.
Instead, they expressed a fervent desire to pay the natives for the dried corn they found, if only they could find someone to pay.
Start a language from scratch (the natural way)
- And so even though you know that, but every time you see that, I still say P because it takes so long to let go of things that are kind of comfortable, apparently because of our desire to maintain some stability, some stable hold on things that we already know.
And so even though you know that, but every time you see that, I still say P because it takes so long to let go of things that are kind of comfortable, apparently because of our desire to maintain some stability, some stable hold on things that we already know.
- every time you see that, I still say P because it takes so long to let go of things that are kind of comfortable, apparently because of our desire to maintain some stability, some stable hold on things that we already know.
every time you see that, I still say P because it takes so long to let go of things that are kind of comfortable, apparently because of our desire to maintain some stability, some stable hold on things that we already know.
Hermits - 6 Minute English
- Right, although most hippies weren't looking for isolation, they did have something in common with hermits: the desire to challenge society's rules and conventions.
Right, although most hippies weren't looking for isolation, they did have something in common with hermits: the desire to challenge society's rules and conventions.
- the desire to challenge
the desire to challenge
The Big Bang Theory | How To Be A Good Friend | HBO Max
- I have no desire to get in the water till I absolutely have to.
I have no desire to get in the water till I absolutely have to.
- I have no desire to get in the water until I absolutely have to.
I have no desire to get in the water until I absolutely have to.