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单词 most wanted
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most wanted
most wanted adj. and n. (a) adj. (attributive), designating a person or thing most eagerly sought after, esp. in connection with serious criminal offences; (b) n. such a person or thing.
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1949 Washington Daily News 7 Feb. 22/1 The FBI today listed 10 men as the most-wanted fugitives now at large. They are two accused murderers, four escaped convicts, a bank robber and three confidence men.
1985 T. O'Brien Nucl. Age xii. 277 We spent two days making the rounds of every school in the city. Sarah complained that it was too much like FBI work, like tracking down Most Wanteds.
1994 Air & Space Technol. Nov. 17/2 As for his other most-wanteds, if anyone out there has a Martin Mars flying boat, a Ford Tri-motor, or a Douglas DC-2, don't be surprised if a genial bespectacled man with a camera sidles up to you one day [etc].
2000 N.Y. Times 22 Oct. iv. 15 (advt.) Castro's ‘Most Wanted’ new project—A Cuban Nuclear Plant just like Chernobyl in Russia.
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