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Princeton's WordNet

  1. wantedadjective

    desired or wished for or sought

    "couldn't keep her eyes off the wanted toy"; "a wanted criminal"; "a wanted poster"

  2. cherished, precious, treasured, wantedadjective

    characterized by feeling or showing fond affection for

    "a cherished friend"; "children are precious"; "a treasured heirloom"; "so good to feel wanted"

Wiktionary

  1. wantedadjective

    wished for; desired; sought

  2. wantedadjective

    subject to immediate detainment by law enforcement authorities on sight.

Wikipedia

  1. Wanted

    Wanted is a song written by American country music artist Alan Jackson and Charlie Craig, and recorded by Jackson. It was released in May 1990 as the third single from Jackson's first album, Here in the Real World. The song peaked at number 3 on both the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts and the Canadian RPM Country Tracks Chart.

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  1. wanted

    Wanted can be defined as being desired, sought after, or needed. It typically refers to someone or something that is being actively searched for or sought by individuals or authorities, often due to their involvement in a crime or their importance in a particular context.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Wanted

    of Want

Wikidata

  1. Wanted

    "Wanted" is a popular song written by Jack Fulton and Lois Steele. A recording by Perry Como with Hugo Winterhalter's orchestra and chorus was made at Manhattan Center, New York City, on December 29, 1952. It was released by RCA Victor Recordsas catalog number 20-5647 and by EMI on the His Master's Voice label as catalog number B 10691. The flip side of both recordings was "Look out the Window" The most popular recorded version, by Perry Como, reached #1 on Billboard magazine's charts in 1954. The song also reached #1 on the Cash Box chart in the same year. Al Martino also had a top 10 hit with the song in the United Kingdom. Another early recorded version is by singer pianist Moon Mullican. The song was featured in a Christmas episode of "WKRP in Cincinnati", in a flashback to 12/24/54. Anne Murray recorded a cover of the song for her album Croonin'.

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    Song lyrics by wanted -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by wanted on the Lyrics.com website.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Wanted' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #422

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Wanted' in Written Corpus Frequency: #313

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Wanted in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Wanted in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Wanted in a Sentence

  1. Melissa Curran:

    Shutting down the government because Donald Trump wanted to stomp Donald Trump feet over this wall, I mean this is an Air Force town -- so many people were affected by Donald Trump tantrum.

  2. Clifford Lane:

    When we got there, the outbreak was already coming under control in China. The measures they put in place appear to be working. I think that they felt there were lessons learned they wanted to share with the rest of the world.

  3. Anthony Fauci:

    We wanted to get to 20 million, but some glimmer of hope is that in the last 72 hours, they’ve gotten 1.2 million doses into peoples’ arms, which is an average of about 500,000 a day, we are not where we want to be. There’s no doubt about that. But I think we can get there.

  4. Tom Daley:

    When I was Tom Daley, I felt like an outsider, and felt different, and I felt like I was never going to be anything, because who I was, wasn't what society wanted me to be, and to be able to see out LGBT people performing at the Olympic Games, I hope( that) can give young kids hope and not feel so frightened and scared and alone, and to be able to see that no matter who Tom Daley are, where Tom Daley come from, Tom Daley can become an Olympic Games champion, because I did.

  5. Gainesville Police Chief Jay Parrish:

    The student who immediately reported this to school officials saved lives, she had written down how she wanted to do it, the best way to do it. She had procured some butcher knives, kitchen knives to do the attack with.

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  • David Boykin
    David Boykin
    nedded; required for relief or supply. Wanted; desired, wished for or sought. Which one is better?
    LikeReply6 years ago

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