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The company also said Wilson is trying to “regain increased influence over the company that he has coveted since he left.”

From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026

But there is a sense of inevitability that this 69-year-old comeback kid might be on the cusp of clinching the job he has coveted for so long.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2025

Real Madrid has coveted Mbappe for a number of years and in 2021 unsuccessfully launched a bid of $190 million to take him to the Bernabeu.

From Washington Times • Jun. 14, 2023

He’s a former state Assembly speaker who long has coveted the governorship.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2021

The King of the Land Taratzi271 has coveted the city of Simyra; and they desired to march to the city of Gebal; and none now has urged him, and he has stayed in his land.

From Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings by Wilson, Epiphanius