languish

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

Many of those people still languish in detention centers, while many more have already been deported.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2026

Others languish in Mexico with few resources and an uncertain path to legal status under Mexican law.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026

The good come here as well as the wicked, and all of us languish in this gloom forever, with no hope of freedom, or joy, or sleep, or rest, or peace.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

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

Is it my fault that that young woman deperishes and languishes to the view of the eye, consumed by a flame which I can not return?

From A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy by Thackeray, William Makepeace

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

And yet, oil has languished below $100 a barrel for over three weeks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 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

At the time of the bid, Ackman promised to turn around Universal's share price, which he said had "languished" due to financial issues not related to the performance of its music business.

From BBC ● May 29, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026

Diageo’s earnings multiple is languishing at 2009 levels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 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

Meanwhile, Alec and Hilaria Baldwin’s Amagansett compound has been languishing on the market since 2022, when they listed it for $29 million.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026

“However, I have a feeling I’m not going to see the results of last night’s efforts. I don’t feel good at all. I think I’m languishing, to tell you the truth.”

From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White