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Am Beginn der Krise, in die die EU in den letzten Jahren geraten ist, stand Wunschdenken, und nirgendwo war es so stark verbreitet wie in Deutschland. [G] When the crisis that has struck the EU in recent years began it was plagued by wishful thinking, and nowhere was this as prevalent as in Germany.

Das Denken der deutschen Geostrategen führt in die Irre, weil es sich von Wunschdenken leiten läßt. [G] The German geostrategists' thinking is misleading because it is steered by wishful thinking.

Die Gliedmaße abgeschnitten als Torso, die Oberfläche gequetscht, den Kopf zwischen den Beinen gymnastisch verrenkt: es gibt Kritiker, die in den Deformationen der Weiblichkeit männliches Wunschdenken wittern. [G] Torsos with their limbs cut off, their surfaces bruised, their heads gymnastically contorted between their legs: there are critics who see male fantasies in these deformations of femininity.

Vielmehr basierten diese auf völlig unrealistischen Markteinschätzungen, die sich eher als Wunschdenken beschreiben lassen. [EU] Instead, these were based on entirely unrealistic market estimates which can be described more as wishful thinking.

The example sentences [G] were kindly provided by the Goethe Institute.
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