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been wanting for
verb
To wish for or to desire (something).
Exact(48)
"I've been wanting for years to go there.
I feel like a grandma, like I have a companion I've been wanting for 30 years".
"It's something we've been wanting for a long time," Davis said.
She went to the store to buy a record she had been wanting for a long time.
Here's where the museum finally got the plain, flexible, six-thousand-square-foot gallery it has been wanting for years.
"David," she said, in this running murmur, "there's something I've been wanting for years to say to you.
Similar(10)
She might have been wanted for Beetlejuice, but no one wanted her for Heathers.
SINCE no subject today seems to be wanting for a cultural history, no subject is unimaginable.
He is wanting for questioning in relations to allegations of sexual assault, which he denies.
The thief is wanted for grand larceny.
He's wanted for a triple murder.
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