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Discover LudwigThe phrase "dire interest" is correct and can be used in written English
Typically it is used to describe an intense and urgent interest in something. For example, "The team took a dire interest in the case and worked around the clock to solve it."
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It's going to be dire -- interest rates will surely rise.
But this is a relatively small failure of prediction compared with the dire forecasts of soaring interest and inflation rates.
We also heard dire tale of exploding interest rates and runaway inflation.
The Knicks have interest, and a dire need for frontcourt muscle.
Wounded by accusations that he was a racist despite his passionate interest in the dire costs of poverty and racial injustice, Moynihan was touched by the few liberals who stood up to defend him.
In the documents, Mr. Spitzer's lawyers argue that disclosing information such as that sought by the Senate would severely compromise the administration's ability to formulate public policy, with "dire consequences for the public interest".
Instead, when Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant make their annual trip to Madison Square Garden today -- and the Los Angeles Lakers seek the championship chemistry of last season -- West, the former team president, will be at home, watching with interest more than dire concern.
Despite the magnitude of the burden of AHF and the intense interest in this dire problem, effective new therapies capable of reducing the prevalence of early mortality or re-hospitalization have not been developed over the past decade [ 7].
No one wants Afghanistan to end like Iraq – because the consequences for future US security and interests can be dire".
It became her focal metaphor for the experience of sudden dire illness, as all other interests drop away save "an overriding and offensive obsession with one's own physical vulnerability".
Failure to give diplomacy the attention and time it needs could have dire consequences for key U.S. interests: the stability of Iraq and Afghanistan, the global nonproliferation regime, and the prospects for peace between Israel and its neighbors.
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