languishing

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Languishing sales in the 1980s saw a majority stake go to General Motors, which was primarily looking to benefit from Lotus’s profitable engineering-services division, The Wall Street Journal reported at the time.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

Languishing 22 points behind City and now no longer even in the fourth and final Champions League place.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2022

Languishing near the bottom, some perhaps victimized by not screening widely yet: Ridley Scott’s sure-to-make-some-go-gaga “House of Gucci,” Aaron Sorkin’s “Being the Ricardos” and Steven Spielberg’s whether-they-wanted-a-remake-or-not “West Side Story.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2021

Languishing in a dreary job at a London law office, 27-year-old Robert Martineau dreamed of an adventure to banish his boredom and malaise.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2021

Languishing in jail, still wearing his wool suit, Apollinaire was charged with the theft of the Mona Lisa.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day