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Coming off his resurgent 2024 season in Los Angeles, outfielder Teoscar Hernández has desired to remain with the Dodgers.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2024

After moving to Salt Lake City in 2020, Carter has desired the pay minimums, pension and healthcare benefits enjoyed by his unionized co-workers in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2023

And he wants what every other long-suffering Jets fan has desired since Joe Namath led the team to its only Super Bowl title in 1969.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 16, 2021

A creature of honor, she will be destroyed, though outwardly intact, by inner recognition that she has desired her own dishonor.

From Time Magazine Archive

We believe that God, in his infinite, overflowing goodness desires, and from all eternity has desired, the salvation of all men.

From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor