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were wishing
noun
A desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen
Exact(43)
Abroad, few were wishing him many happy returns.
By day three, most of the others were wishing they had brought them too.
"All those people back then were wishing for more happy years, and we've had those years," she said.
The woman herself went out today in becalmed conditions, as if fate itself were wishing her well in her preparations.
It was in this little really small office, and they were wishing to make a bid for the site and asked if we would prepare a feasibility study".
Some survivors were wishing death on the these men, he said, while others just wanted their daughters, cousins, aunts and nieces to be brought back.
Similar(17)
That is what I am wishing for.
"I'm wishing him the best".
"I was wishing the battery would die.
Not that he was wishing us ill.
"As you are wishing, Father," Manyenga said.
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