languish

The last thing she expected was for it to languish on the market for four months and counting, specifically because of the data center being built behind it.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026

He also says that, while IBM itself prepurchased $600 million in hardware to get ahead of price increases, it isn’t financially prudent for companies to continue buying hardware, only to have it languish in inventory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Places like Wigan - in Greater Manchester, Burnham's stronghold - often languish next to the bigger cities in whose shadow they sit.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Abrupt, unwelcome occurrences scar our autonomy and cripple our illusion of independence; the question of what went wrong falls on our shoulders, another loop to languish inside.

From Salon ● May 30, 2026

“That they may not languish in unavailing grief,” he said in a slightly amplified voice, “nor sorrow as those who have no hope, but through their tears look always up to Thee....”

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

Tortora, meanwhile, languishes in squalid jail cells and a country with only a casual regard for habeas corpus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026

Jenner is likely taking a significant financial hit on the property as it languishes on the market.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 17, 2026

Discovery has attracted interest from activist shareholders as the company’s stock languishes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025

"I am very sorry I cannot give you sitting-room," replies Mrs. Arlington, quite as politely, after which conversation languishes.

From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)

As a result, upstate New York has languished, while Pennsylvanians next door enjoy more jobs and much lower energy prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Bloom, a fuel-cell producer, is a member of the Russell 2000, where it languished for several years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Former state controller Betty Yee — who languished at the bottom of the polls — held on for a few more weeks before calling it quits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

His Palm Beach compound languished for six years and required $22 million in price cuts before it was sold, while his sprawling Oyster Bay compound on Long Island was recently taken off the market.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026

She had spent the better part of the past eight years in Europe, and during that time her career in the United States had languished.

From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman

The club he loves are languishing in the third division of Spanish football - and one thing is on his mind.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 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

Former attorneys in the division worry that other preexisting cases are languishing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026

After languishing in development hell under Stanley Kubrick for two decades, the notoriously intense auteur deferred the project to Spielberg, believing he would be the right fit to tell such a complex yet tender story.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026

At present, Mulch was languishing in a stone-walled cell in LEP Central.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer