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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
despair .
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Examples
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Bad things were hopelessly bad with Cherry, her despairs were the dark and tearful despairs of girlhood, prematurely transferred to graver matters.
Sisters Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923
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As a former Senate investigator despairs in one of Taibbi's reports, "Everything's f-ed up, and nobody goes to jail."
Suzanne O'Keeffe: American Autumn in Los Angeles -- OccupyWallSt Joins Main Street Suzanne O'Keeffe 2011
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Now they stood empty, intractable brownfield sites, caught in an unending recession, surrounded by CCTV and "private land" and "keep out" notices, sad monuments to the pioneering hopes and the sullen despairs of the past and to the institutional and financial paralysis of the present.
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Mr. Cheplowitz says he despairs whenever he flies down to check on the properties.
Are You Ready to Be a Landlord? Jessica Silver-Greenberg 2011
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As a former Senate investigator despairs in one of Taibbi's reports, "Everything's f-ed up, and nobody goes to jail."
Suzanne O'Keeffe: American Autumn in Los Angeles -- OccupyWallSt Joins Main Street Suzanne O'Keeffe 2011
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Later, after Siddhartha immerses himself in the pleasures of the flesh -- women, fine food, good clothing, gambling, money-making -- and then despairs and tires of that lifestyle, he comes to see again that he must listen to an inner voice to lead him out of despair.
Claudia Ricci: Students Meet Sid -- Siddhartha, That Is! Claudia Ricci 2011
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MS sufferer despairs at plans to cut disability living allowance - video
Elderly NHS patients' harrowing plight is revealed in report 2011
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As a former Senate investigator despairs in one of Taibbi's reports, "Everything's f-ed up, and nobody goes to jail."
Suzanne O'Keeffe: American Autumn in Los Angeles -- OccupyWallSt Joins Main Street Suzanne O'Keeffe 2011
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Later, after Siddhartha immerses himself in the pleasures of the flesh -- women, fine food, good clothing, gambling, money-making -- and then despairs and tires of that lifestyle, he comes to see again that he must listen to an inner voice to lead him out of despair.
Claudia Ricci: Students Meet Sid -- Siddhartha, That Is! Claudia Ricci 2011
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As a former Senate investigator despairs in one of Taibbi's reports, "Everything's f-ed up, and nobody goes to jail."
Suzanne O'Keeffe: American Autumn in Los Angeles -- OccupyWallSt Joins Main Street Suzanne O'Keeffe 2011
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