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  • verb Present participle of thirst.

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Examples

  • So much for how the public is "thirsting" for Barack Obama.

    One-Third Of Americans Don't Know Who Obama Is 2009

  • I think that, more and more, people are kind of thirsting for criticism and biography that just speaks kind of in ordinary language, just to normal, intelligent readers and that kind of reaches out to a larger general leadership.

    Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography 1996

  • I for one will be devastated if we don't get the Bella / Edward ending we have been 'thirsting' for from the beginning.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • I for one will be devastated if we don't get the Bella / Edward ending we have been 'thirsting' for from the beginning.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • I for one will be devastated if we don't get the Bella / Edward ending we have been 'thirsting' for from the beginning.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • I for one will be devastated if we don't get the Bella / Edward ending we have been 'thirsting' for from the beginning.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • I for one will be devastated if we don't get the Bella / Edward ending we have been 'thirsting' for from the beginning.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • He considers himself quite the daring explorer as he travels the modern paved highways of Chiapas in his airconditioned SUV with the cel phone at the ready to summon Mr. Wizard whenever he confuses the orange-clad machete-wielding highway maintenance crews with militant indigenous thirsting for the blood of their next ladino victim.

    Huatulco to Oaxaca City Road Trip 2009

  • He considers himself quite the daring explorer as he travels the modern paved highways of Chiapas in his airconditioned SUV with the cel phone at the ready to summon Mr. Wizard whenever he confuses the orange-clad machete-wielding highway maintenance crews with militant indigenous thirsting for the blood of their next ladino victim.

    Huatulco to Oaxaca City Road Trip 2009

  • He considers himself quite the daring explorer as he travels the modern paved highways of Chiapas in his airconditioned SUV with the cel phone at the ready to summon Mr. Wizard whenever he confuses the orange-clad machete-wielding highway maintenance crews with militant indigenous thirsting for the blood of their next ladino victim.

    Huatulco to Oaxaca City Road Trip 2009

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