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

The disputed settlement emerged from a 1985 lawsuit over the fate of 15-year-old Jenny Flores, a Salvadoran refugee who was picked up by federal immigration enforcement and left to languish in detention in Pasadena.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 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

It was unlikely I would ever see these things again; I was certain they were doomed to languish in storage in some dark police facility.

From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson

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

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

Only a man who languishes for a friend exactly as for a loved woman-deserves either.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul

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

Beneath the languished moves in the main stock-market indexes, there were some disturbing features.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 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

It’ll give me the feeling that I’ve accomplished something, that I haven’t just languished in the ER.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini

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

While downtown Los Angeles is languishing, Burbank is booming.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 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

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