languished
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In return, he left us a sublime body of work, one that languished in astonishing critical neglect until the mid-19th and early-20th centuries, the result of a dwindling taste for monastic and devotional art.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 24, 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 β Jul. 14, 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 β Jun. 10, 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 β Jun. 3, 2026
All of its members, not just those like Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton with famously impoverished origins, would have languished in obscurity in England or France.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
