languish

Hunter said: "We know that excess mortality happens when you languish on a hospital trolley."

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

He also says that, while IBM itself prepurchased $600 million in hardware to get ahead of price increases, it isn’t financially prudent for companies to continue buying hardware, only to have it languish in inventory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 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

Not all inmates can be helped, but some can, and it’s foolish to let them languish.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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

In its immediate vicinity all vegetation languishes and dies, and the shores are covered as with a coat of salt.

From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various

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

As a result, upstate New York has languished, while Pennsylvanians next door enjoy more jobs and much lower energy prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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

A frozen banana tree, brow'n and stricken, languished against the front of the porch, the tree preparing to collapse as the iron fence had done long ago.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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

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

Kent debuted on the Baseball Writers’ Assn. of America Hall of Fame ballot five years later, languishing there for 10 consecutive seasons without coming close to the 75% threshold necessary to be elected.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

Diageo’s earnings multiple is languishing at 2009 levels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

A wicked king’s wooden wives languishing under an evil wooden spell.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy