When you pass laws that force people to give birth then … wait for it … more people are forced to give birth. According to a depressingly predictable new study “nearly a quarter of people seeking an abortion in the United States were unable to get one due to bans that took effect after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision”. In the first half of 2023, states with abortion bans had an average fertility rate that was 2.3% higher than states without abortion restrictions. Only 0.5% of neuroscience studies specifically look at women’s health What's the verb of "desperate", I think it's not "despair", because in this case when you are desperate, you are willing to do anything to get out of the bad situation. And with despair----it's when you have no hope. to do something desperate→ cometer un acto desesperado, cometer una locura, hacer algo a la desesperada

Desperate describes a condition or state of being so its verb definition would have to be "existing in a condition of desperation", which doesn't yet exist. Therefore, you'd have to make one up—which you could, because that's how words are made. The dictionary is not a rule book, it's a record of common usage. Despairing(adjective): showing or feeling that there is no hope and that you can do nothing to improve a difficult or worrying situation: Taxonomy doesn't have a verb form either; there is no such thing as "taxonomizing" something. But I use the word taxonomize because it makes sense to me and that's how language works. If enough other people use it because it also makes sense to them, eventually it will find its place in the dictionary. And there's nothing to say that this couldn't happen here, with desperate, which itself could be its own verb form: In Ridley Scott’s new historical epic Napoloen, the actor playing Joséphine Bonaparte, Vanessa Kirby, is 14 years younger than Joaquin Phoenix, who plays the emperor. As a Guardian reader points out, however: “Napoleon Bonaparte was six years younger than Joséphine, and that contributed to the power dynamic in their relationship. Yet again, Hollywood has obeyed sexist norms and cast a much younger female lead, even to the detriment of the narrative.” Third-gender ‘muxe’ festival held in southern Mexico

That is two mothers killed every hour and seven women every two hours,” the head of UN Women said. “We mourn them all.” It’s also important to mourn all the innocent men who have been killed. Palestinians as a whole face constant dehumanization but Palestinian men and teenage boys bear the brunt of this. New York City mayor Eric Adams accused of sexual assault in 1993 to be desperate to do sth: I was desperate to see her→ estaba desesperada por verla, quería verla a toda costa, me moría por verla

Note that it is common to use in spite of and despite with the expression the fact that, followed by a subject and verb.

to resort to desperate measures→ recurrir a medidas desesperadas, recurrir a fruto de la de desesperación The main difference between although, even though, in spite of and despite is that they are used with different structures. in spite of / despite This is just the latest controversy the mayor is facing. Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused of sexual assault and revenge porn

I don't think there is the firm dividing line you assume where 'despair' means absolutely no hope and a situation cannot possibly change. Despair(noun): the feeling that there is no hope and that you can do nothing to improve a difficult or worrying situation: Tinder, the world’s most popular dating app, has been watching these trends with alarm. In an attempt to appeal to gen Z the app has added a bunch of new features, such as quizzes and prompts. Which is fairly standard stuff; what’s noteworthy, however, is its decision to proudly describe these updates as a “ rizz-first redesign”. For readers who are over the age of 25 and/or don’t spend every waking moment online, “rizz” is teen slang for “ charisma”. And a “rizz-first redesign” is cringeworthy corporate slang for “we’re desperate not to become obsolete”. Births have increased in US states with abortion bansThough can also go at the end of the second phrase. This way of expressing contrasting ideas is most common in spoken English. When they’re not meeting people in the real world, some young singles have been eschewing traditional dating apps for so-called date-me-docs. What on earth are those? Basically just a digital update to ye olde personal ad or lonely hearts post. You write up a dating CV and what you’re looking for in a match then send the link around. Lee Yong-soo, a 95-year-old activist and victim, thanked the court for the ruling and said she wished she could tell all the victims who died before this small sliver of justice was served about the verdict. 67% of the more than 14,000 people killed in Gaza are estimated to be women and children late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin desperatio(n- ), from the verb desperare (see despair).

Desperate(Adjective): feeling that you have no hope and are ready to do anything to change the bad situation you are in: feeling, showing, or involving a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with. You place desperate (adjective) in the 'willing to do anything' section instead of 'no hope' even though your definition says:

In Indigenous Zapotec cultures in this region, muxes are people born biologically male and mix gay and feminine identity,” Reuters reports. “In the Zapotec language, there is no [grammatical] gender,” Felina Santiago, sometimes described as the matriarch of Juchitán’s muxe community, said. “We have always existed and we have always resisted.” The week in pawtrarichy Although, even though, in spite of and despite are all used to link two contrasting ideas or show that one fact makes the other fact surprising. They can all be used at the beginning or in the middle of the sentence. you're going out with her? you must be desperate! ( hum) → ¿ sales con ésa? ¡ muy desesperado debes estar! After although and even though, we use a subject and a verb. Even though is slightly stronger and more emphatic than although.