wish fulfilment
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A notebook is a place of wish fulfilment, and a place for vengeance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
It's wish fulfilment but of the simplest kind: longing for connection, a sort of Nancy Meyers for friends.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2021
You might suggest that it was wish fulfilment, that I was projecting my own words onto her, and that's the most likely explanation.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2021
Hollywood, Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s soapy, gleefully ahistorical Netflix miniseries about postwar Hollywood, is not so much a work of historical fiction as it is an exercise in wish fulfilment.
From Slate ● May 1, 2020
Her whole body seemed to live in common with a spectral mirror sister, and to catch sight of this beloved sister was her first wish, fulfilment of which she effected as often as possible.
From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson
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