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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 division is under pressure to show quick results, but it has struggled to recruit prosecutors and has been slowed by an internal turf war that has caused some promising investigations to languish.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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

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

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

"And should Jotan, his son, return from Sephar while his father languishes in the pits?"

From The Return of Tharn by Howard Browne

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

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 ● Jun. 10, 2026

For most of those two years, Blake and a small group of prisoners languished in a makeshift North Korean prison camp, plagued with monotony and boredom.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

United's board decided the 45-year-old deserved the opportunity to turn things around at Old Trafford, despite the team languishing in 16th place in the Premier League.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

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

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

One afternoon, evidently, this butler had entered the dining room to make sure all was well for dinner, when he noticed a tiger languishing beneath the dining table.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro