languish

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

If you are withholding too much money, it makes sense to reduce that amount so you put that money in your back pocket in lieu of having it languish in IRS coffers.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026

Those of us who languish in the academic wasteland are too tardy to lament, so little has changed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 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

Most academic analyses of this sort tend to languish, unread, on a dusty library shelf.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

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

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

It is withdrawn from the already insufficient amount in circulation, and legitimate business languishes.

From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

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

In return, he left us a sublime body of work, one that languished in astonishing critical neglect until the mid-19th and early-20th centuries, the result of a dwindling taste for monastic and devotional art.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

Three stop-start decades followed as silver prices languished.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 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

United are currently languishing in 16th place, with their only league win against Ipswich on 30 August, and are without a win in all competitions since 10 September.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

While downtown Los Angeles is languishing, Burbank is booming.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

In 2025, SoftBank bought a 2% stake for $2 billion while the chip maker was in trouble and its shares were languishing at $23.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

IBM stock has been languishing since July 14, when it pre-announced disappointing earnings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

Reports reached us that these Polish Jews were languishing on the border in a squalid no-man's-land of temporary camps.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson