desperation

My phones buzzes with a message from a colleague saying thousands of hungry Palestinians have looted an aid truck in central Gaza, as desperation over food shortages mounts.

Go get married to it, or ponder its existential desperation.

In their desperation to keep Miller happy, ICE has already been targeting legal immigrants for deportation, mostly because they're easy to find, due to having registered with the government.

Is it a story of how members of a family, protected by a social safety net from abject desperation, developed different ideas about how to relate to material circumstance?

The Muslim Council of Britain accused her of "desperation" adding: "Kemi Badenoch isn't setting the agenda - she's scrambling to keep up with Reform UK's divisive rhetoric."