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Lust motivates us to pursue a range of sexual partners—to explore and experiment with possible “mates”—while attraction encourages us to get selective, to conserve precious time and energy by coupling with someone specific.

Being there teaches you to think quickly, edit yourself, and not get too precious about your own work.

From a lyrical standpoint, there are precious few that can catch Kendrick.

Second, they threaten one of the most precious resources in our state: public education that is open to all children.

The precious cargo: two American humanitarian workers with Ebola.

There are precious few large-scale, ambitious, original works.

It was during this period of her life that she won a friendship quite as strong and quite as precious as that of old Grossetete.

Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones.

I held up my precious book before him; I rapped the open page impressively with my forefinger.

Everything that belongs to her, or is connected with her, is precious to me.

Last and most precious was the silver shilling, which she polished carefully with her chamois-skin pen-wiper before putting away.