Citations:Wish.com

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English citations of Wish.com


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Noun[edit]

  • 2021, Ellie Jurmann, "Horror Movies for Bedtime Stories", Post- (Brown University, Providence, RI), 29 October 2021, page 5:
    When I sit and watch Insidious, I cannot help but smile at the Wish.com version of Darth Maul whom I am supposed to tremble at the sight of.
  • 2022, Mary Katherine Backstrom, Crazy Joy: Finding Wild Happiness in a World That's Upside Down, unnumbered page:
    I feel like this concept is the Wish.com version of reincarnation.
  • 2022, John Dorney, Jessica Regan, & Tom Salinsky, Best Pick: A Journey Through Film History and the Academy Awards, page 150:
    But ultimately, it's the Wish.com version of a David Lean epic, partway between a pound-shop Kwai and a half-decent episode of Columbo, and it just goes on and on without feeling the urge to be heading anywhere in particular or to be saying anything at all that interesting.
  • 2022, Mary Rose Macdonald, "New Body Shape Ready to Make You Hate Yours", Pelican (University of Western Australia), Volume 93, Issue 1, page 33:
    Such a popular procedure [the Brazilian butt lift] does not come cheaply, and thus dodgy ‘Wish.com’ versions pose an attractive alternative.

Proper noun[edit]

  • 2022, "Springer/Skippies", The Mission: The Cult of Fly Fishing, July/August 2022, page 26:
    While at first glance they may look like a tarpon bought off Wish.com, springer, to put it mildly, are amazing. Once hooked, they fight like hell, exhibit blistering speed on the run and put on an impressive aerobatic display.
  • 2022, Megan Striff-Cave & Wahid Sarwar, "Notable UTB Alumni You Might Have Not Known", Under the Button (satirical newspaper of the University of Pennsylvania), 8 December 2022, page 8:
    After exhausting our funds on hiring the most sought-after researchers from Wish.com, we are proud to finally release a comprehensive yet incomplete list of people you may or may not have known that wrote for UTB.