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The phrase "around desperately" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a frantic or urgent action occurring in a circular or surrounding manner, often conveying a sense of urgency or hopelessness.
Example: "She searched around desperately for her lost keys, hoping to find them before she was late."
Alternatives: "frantically searching" or "desperately looking".
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Instead he flings comic bits and gross-out gags around desperately.
I know managers and admissions officers running around desperately trying to find beds anywhere".
A last chapter describes his execution as, still looking around desperately for help, he protests to the last.
Poor forgotten pop stars, affected by this recession just like the rest of us, flail around desperately for a steady Iceland ad campaign or a weekly OK! column.
"We're tiptoeing around, desperately trying not to irritate or offend the Chinese," said Thea M. Lee, public policy director of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.
He rode the lift back to the top of the slope for the second and final run, calling around desperately for a technician.
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He walks around, trying desperately to re-create the past & find someone who knew him.
Yet I've been travelling around feeling desperately lonely for weeks.
The staff, left hanging around outside, desperately try to find out what is going on in the meeting.
That has compelled them to cast around, sometimes desperately, for other channels through which to sell their wares.Schroder has gone for incrementalism.
I had high hopes for the company, based almost entirely around how desperately the TV industry needs disruption.
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