as in desirability
suitability for bringing about a desired result under the circumstances
began to question the desirableness of a life of indolence on a tropical isle
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Noun
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With prices reaching well into six and seven figures, the auctions are setting new benchmarks for desirability and investment potential in the automotive world.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025 -
The boxes look pricy, which only adds to their desirability.—
Tim Grierson,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Feb. 2025
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Iran also has an elaborate set of overlapping institutions, including a consultative assembly, an assembly of experts, a guardian council, an expediency council, a judiciary, and so on.—
Richard Haass,
Foreign Affairs,
6 Jan. 2025
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Knowing you all are there, anonymous, in the seedy place together, can quickly endear you to other users with expediency and a total absence of shame.—
Fran Tirado,
Them,
20 Dec. 2024
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India’s Nifty 50 index climbed around 0.8% ahead of the country’s Union Budget on Saturday, in which the government has to balance fiscal prudence with economic stimulus.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
31 Jan. 2025
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That prudence paid off earlier this week when China’s DeepSeek unveiled its free AI open-source technology.—
Jeff Kilburg,
CNBC,
31 Jan. 2025
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“Desirableness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/desirableness. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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