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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
crave .
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Examples
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She has an opinion, like all Americans 'have, but to give her the publicity she craves, is just feeding her dilusional ego!
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The word craves companionship and possesses a nesting instinct: the desire to "create a rather larger/mansion filled with spoons and condiments."
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The word craves companionship and possesses a nesting instinct: the desire to "create a rather larger/mansion filled with spoons and condiments."
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Edinburgh '-- this when what one craves is mere pity for one's unmerited sufferings!
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The peace, the unity for which he craves is superficially attained; but it takes acuter eyes than his to see that it is attained, not by harmonious intermingling, but by super-position and destruction.
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Chávez has always appeared more interested in “liberating” Latin America’s underclass than in actually fretting over the contours of the society that follows — the legacy he craves is that of a hero, not a technocrat.
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Chávez has always appeared more interested in “liberating” Latin America’s underclass than in actually fretting over the contours of the society that follows — the legacy he craves is that of a hero, not a technocrat.
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What my body craves, which is a pretty good indicator of what my body needs.
Lauren Cahn: "Eating Clean": the Latest Evil Diet Craze 2009
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It can embody once more what the world still craves from the American idea: hope. "
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It can embody once more what the world still craves from the American idea: hope. "
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