wishful in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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The hope is that this would lead to better decisions, not just the wishful thinking of populist spin.
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Biases in judgment or decision-making can also result from motivation, such as when beliefs are distorted by wishful thinking.
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Lane admits that this was wishful thinking, since all of his failed relationships have ended on bad terms.
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The outcome of valence effects may be called wishful thinking.
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Colloquially, however, it can also be used for a wishful second person imperative.
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Second, wishful thinking could be generated by selective interpretation of cues.
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However, this statement may only be wishful thinking, considering how little attention the government is paying to airsoft activities.
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Over the years, there has been wishful effort by some of its past members to rekindle the band, primarily in the mid-nineties.
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Wishful seeing can be attributed to the same mechanisms as wishful thinking because it involves the processing of situational cues, including visual cues.
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The reports turned out to be false, the result of wishful thinking and poor communications between the continents.
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