How to Use wish away in a Sentence
wish away
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Yet the program’s structural defects can’t be wished away.
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Editorial,
Boston Herald,
15 Aug. 2025
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The plot follows a young girl who ends up wishing away her baby brother into the goblin labyrinth.
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Lucia Cheng,
Des Moines Register,
14 Jan. 2026
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The Islamic Republic is a problem to be managed, not wished away.
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Ray Takeyh,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Dec. 2025
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Unlike eight years ago, countries can no longer wish away the implications of a United States that might not support them in a crisis.
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Robert E. Kelly,
Foreign Affairs,
8 Dec. 2025
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All across the United States, in big cities and small towns and even in unincorporated rural places without names, people go to casinos and wish away more than fifty billion dollars each year.
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Adam Iscoe,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
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