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Daniel Medina Díaz, a triathlete who lives in Benton Harbor, Mich., had been coveting a bike from the company’s Quintana Roo line since he encountered the brand at last year’s U.S.A.

From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2020

The live hourlong program began with an updated prelude to the original novel eerily warning that superintelligent beings had been coveting “this Earth with envious eyes.”

From New York Times • May 21, 2016

Her father had given her the money for a pocket microscope which Ernest had been coveting for months.

From Chicken Little Jane by Ritchie, Lily Munsell