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- noun Plural form of
wish . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
wish .
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Examples
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*closes eyes real tight and wishes for a Super Nintendo and more wishes*
The Wish List (A Handy Conversion Chart) spacesick 2009
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*closes eyes real tight and wishes for a Super Nintendo and more wishes*
Archive 2009-09-01 spacesick 2009
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Killing is perfected but creating is limited to vague bumbling ideas, and small companies operating on grants and well wishes from a stymied, bumbling government.
"My sins my own. They belong to me, me." greygirlbeast 2010
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Best wishes from the sole of your boot. on March 24, 2010 at 5: 32 pm 24/7 Inspector
Unnecessary Police Bureaucracy – Part 1. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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But then, when Palpatine is cornered by Mace Windu, Mace again wishes to break "the Jedi way" by killing Palpatine but it is Anakin who insists on following that way to keep him alive.
Star Wars and Philosophy darkerblogistan 2009
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The last thing in the world the nation wishes is for one more war president.
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Vladimir Lennin wishes he had landed a blow half as hard against capitalism.
Matthew Yglesias » Veronique de Rugy is So Anti-American That She’s Not Even an American! 2010
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Mason will now be allowed to take out whatever he wishes from the library.
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009
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I think in essence what he wishes is that the congress would spend a couple extra trillion to make jobs and the Fed would buy those Treasuries to pay for it.
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Obama, Clinton, Jane Goodall, Pelosi have all sent in wishes as well as everyday folks from around the world.
Matthew Yglesias » War on Christmas Just Got More Fierce 2009
chained_bear commented on the word wishes
Excellent usage here. What would YOU do with four wishes?
August 15, 2009
vanishedone commented on the word wishes
I've just noticed that while WeirdNet usually defines plurals formed with -s, it seems to leave out those formed by adding -es. Maybe we should wish that WeirdNet never ceases to arouse curiosity.
August 15, 2009
bilby commented on the word wishes
That's some Komodo dragon!
August 15, 2009