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Examples
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Palin's plain and palpable desparation is very pervasive, particularly in the political playground, when she is attempting to woo a lot of cons and neocons in her party.
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If the US economy implodes is it really rational to assume the gov't, in desparation, may not go after some of the great returns you made by investing in developing nations?
Social Security Reform, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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No wonder so many people are leaving the RNC, desparation is relevent by using an add such as this.
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I think desparation is setting in on the clinton campaign.
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Just stop Hillary please your desparation is obvious, please step aside while you can and save your reputation.
Final returns in Pennsylvania: did Clinton nab a double-digit win? 2008
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Even in a sitcom, leading lives of quiet desparation is the English way.
December 26th, 2005 2005
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Frustrated at having his more discreet ideas turned down, Hawkey produced this in desparation.
Stars and Stripes Peter Ashley 2008
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Some may say she is being a fighter, no I call it desparation.
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The soldiers taking advantage of their desparation are the scum of the earth.
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The soldiers taking advantage of their desparation are the scum of the earth.
UN peacekeepers trade food for sex from teen refugees in the Congo 2004
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