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covets

  • present tense form
    of covet (3rd person singular).
    covet
    verb (used with object)
    to desire wrongfully, inordinately, or without due regard for the rights of others.

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Greenland does not need medical assistance from other countries, Denmark's defence minister said Sunday, after US President Donald Trump claimed he was sending a hospital ship to the autonomous Danish territory that he covets.

From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026

Or, according to an erratic transactional logic in which force would no longer serve freedom but replace it, an allied nation: Denmark, whose Greenland he covets?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

He makes no secret of the way he covets the mineral wealth of other countries.

From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026

Though she covets the comfort of home, Lynn knows she’ll be returning to something of a “Twilight Zone,” revisiting a landscape that is both familiar and permanently altered.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2025

She sighs like I'm bothering her and it's an imposition for her to tell me, but I know she covets the attention.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton