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

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

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

Desperate as she’d been to return to her country, she’d known she couldn’t leave Matthias to languish in Hellgate.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

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

When companies purchased via buyout funds cannot be sold on, investor capital languishes in such funds for years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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

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

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 17, 2026

It languishes beneath the contradictory fact that its internal arrangements, its organisations of defence, the regulations of its towns and districts are animated by a Liberal spirit, while the building lacks the necessary consummation.

From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Rudolf von Gottschall

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

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

She languished in the Tucker Sanatorium for three months before being transferred to Eastern State Hospital in Williamsburg.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

Sir Ed has been under pressure this week to set out bolder policies, with his party languishing in fourth or fifth place in national opinion polls.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Germany and the Netherlands are languishing around 50%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 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 I said, Over a century, languishing in chains, Dare I now hope for freedom from my woes?

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez