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unquenched

[uhn-kwencht]

adjective

  1. not having been quenched; not extinguished, satisfied, or suppressed.



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“Saltburn,” writer-director Emerald Fennell’s second feature, is about a lot of things: class, desire unquenched, obsession and a summer vacation at a sprawling upper-crust estate where things are certain to fall apart.

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The oil lobby also points out that the real blame for petroleum-driven global warming lies with us, the public, and our unquenched demand for gasoline-powered cars and fossil fuels of every other description.

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To what extent is the war in Ukraine an extension of Putin's raw force of will, ego, unquenched ambitions, ego and misguided dreams of recreating the lost Russian Empire — and how difficult does that make it to end this war and bring peace to the region?

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Here, Dorrance’s powerful attack and seemingly unquenched desire to eat up space became a group effort.

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U.S. carriers including Delta Air Lines and United Airlines are betting big on American consumers' unquenched thirst for travel across the Atlantic by adding more flights to Europe.

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