How to Use wish fulfillment in a Sentence
wish fulfillment
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So there was a bit of wish fulfillment to the dream, at least at the start.
—Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2023
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Some cams serve as wish fulfillment for those who want to hit the trails but are unable to.
—Allie Volpe, Outside Online, 24 Mar. 2020
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There’s no doubt that the movie will act as wish fulfillment for kids – who wouldn’t want to run amuck and get away with it?
—Kyle Lamar Rice, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2023
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To get the wish fulfillment of the weirdos taking vengeance on all of those who were causing them so much pain?
—Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2020
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And that would be wish fulfillment for her and for the audience.
—Matt Miller, Esquire, 26 Jan. 2018
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That might mean the wish fulfillment of a child's dream to be an astronaut.
—Ryan Prior, CNN, 29 Oct. 2020
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In this wish fulfillment dream, much more than cash is received.
—Lauren Lawrence, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2020
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The Prom might work as an exercise in wish fulfillment.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 4 Jan. 2021
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His account of his adventures in the West is a classic case of wish fulfillment.
—Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 15 May 2020
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But even the best of these are advertisements that create a false sense of fan wish fulfillment.
—Todd Martens, chicagotribune.com, 29 July 2019
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The consequence of wish fulfillment is a universal theme of stories from around the world.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
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And there is only one brief moment where the show plays out a wish fulfillment moment for Dexter.
—Danielle Turchiano, Variety, 7 Nov. 2021
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The result of his little project is some awesome wish fulfillment though.
—Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2017
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Some of the storytelling felt almost like wish fulfillment for us as dark-skinned Black women.
—New York Times, 15 Oct. 2021
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If this sounds like Trumpian wish fulfillment, fair enough, but that’s it for the political backdrop.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 10 Apr. 2024
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Justin Timberlake as a hot, retro lifeguard? Woody Allen is here for such wish fulfillment.
—Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2017
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Yeah, but working it out and wish fulfillment are two different things.
—David Marchese David Marchesephotograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2023
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The scene could be straight out of a Levy film, brimming with recurring themes in his work—role reversal, the wisdom of children and wish fulfillment.
—Alex Bhattacharji, WSJ, 10 Mar. 2022
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For most of the show, Sugar comes off as unconvincing wish fulfillment.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Apr. 2024
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The reversals of fortune feel like easy wish fulfillment.
—Michael Phillips, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2019
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That passage was a bit of wish fulfillment for Lee, who describes himself as a terrible karaoke singer.
—New York Times, 31 Jan. 2021
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With an assist from the djinn and his knowledge of obscure folklore, the scholar speaks on wish fulfillment, aging and desire.
—Bonnie Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022
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That speech is pure wish fulfillment — imagine if a Chicago mayor, or any mayor, said this!
—Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2021
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When her conditions start to improve, the show takes on elements of wish fulfillment.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
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Upbeat planetary connections near the 12th through the 15th, though, indicate that some kind of wish fulfillment is now in store for you.
—Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Nov. 2022
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Freud was wrong in thinking that dreams are a wish fulfillment and are designed to conceal their true significance from the dreamer.
—Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2018
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Irby is inserting a new layer of the narrative that is in some places wish fulfillment.
—Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2020
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The second element of the Western response that risks making peace even harder to achieve is wish fulfillment.
—Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2022
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These leviathan leather goods aren’t merely acts of wish fulfillment by the fashion- industrial complex.
—Kristen Bateman, Town & Country, 6 Sep. 2021
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Varchie fans will get some wish fulfillment in those scenes, but going forward, which pairing will have the happier season three?
—Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 10 Oct. 2018
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