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Desperately

Part of Speech: Adverb

Sense 1:

With great urgency or extreme need.

Sample Sentence: She searched desperately for her lost keys before the bus arrived.

Sense 2:

In an extremely determined manner.

Sample Sentence: He desperately tried to break the record in the marathon.

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