languish

Hunter said: "We know that excess mortality happens when you languish on a hospital trolley."

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Local activists told a different story: It was kids’ prolonged isolation from their families that caused them to languish.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

They continue to languish; the class of 2021 IPOs still trade below IPO price on average.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Nathan Hochman had let the case languish for nearly his entire first year in office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

Desperate as she’d been to return to her country, she’d known she couldn’t leave Matthias to languish in Hellgate.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

The sector now languishes at the bottom of its long-run trend channel, a level from which, Deutsche Bank points out, it has made a V-shaped rebound five times in the last 30 months.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

As a slideshow prepared by an executive explained, “We thrive in the valley of death,” the term for the bureaucratic gap where research languishes without being developed into a product.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

When companies purchased via buyout funds cannot be sold on, investor capital languishes in such funds for years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Official readouts and state media reports have not said whether Xi and Kim discussed North Korea's nuclear weapons development, for which Pyongyang languishes under international sanctions.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

The mineral portions of a plant are of the highest value to the life of the plant—without them, in fact, it languishes and dies.

From Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy by John Andreas Widtsoe

The billionaire had sought to get Universal listed in the U.S., saying its stock price had languished.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Yet meaningful, comprehensive control of AI both on the battlefield and off has languished, largely because trust between governments and understanding of the technology and its risks is lacking, Russell said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

He languished with Memphis and Washington after consistently contributing to playoff runs with Boston.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

The ETF then languished in correction territory — it never rose more than 10% off that Nov. 20 low — until it made a new low in early February.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026

Inside, the cell where the young man languished was unlit.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

Reports that the Walt Disney Company is poised to lay off thousands of workers didn’t seem to move the needle for its languishing stock on Tuesday.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

Human rights groups and legal experts have also raised concerns about delays in investigations and trials that lead to people languishing for years behind bars.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Meager revenues and languishing interest so many years after the league’s 1997 launch meant that some investors wanted out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

A “negative output gap, a languishing labor market, soft real income growth and unambiguously restrictive monetary policy should alleviate concerns around sticky underlying inflation in the U.K.,” von Ahlen argues.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

While languishing in Europe, he wrote a nostalgic pamphlet extolling the land he had come to love.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann