languish

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Burke was only arrested three months ago, and murder cases often languish in L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 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

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

Why else had he been willing to languish in the shadow of the vice presidency for those godforsaken years if not to use it as a stepping-stone to the prize itself?

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

Before that there is this week's attempt to make up ground on the DP World Tour's Race to Dubai where the largely US-based Fleetwood languishes in 94th place.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2025

They are honest— they mean what they say— passionately, tenaciously, tragically— but when the mood languishes, they have to say, if it be they are honest— I do not love you.

From Contemporary One-Act Plays by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

Nepalis have complained that some Chinese-linked projects have languished, while others, such as Pokhara International Airport, have been mired in corruption.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 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

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

So Ah got up on de high stool lak she told me, but Pheoby, Ah done nearly languished tuh death up dere.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 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

Mossflower country shimmered gently in a peaceful haze, bathing delicately at each dew-laden dawn, blossoming through high sunny noontides, languishing in each crimson-tinted twilight that heralded the soft darkness of June nights.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques