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

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

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

Previous city leaders were too hesitant to build temporary housing for homeless people, she said, leaving them to languish on sidewalks while waiting for government-funded apartments to be built.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 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

Where there is too little of it, the flame of a candle burns dim; and where it is not freely supplied to a human frame, it languishes, and pines and sickens.

From Household Education by Harriet Martineau

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

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

Ackman had praised Universal’s CEO Lucian Grainge, saying the company’s stock price had languished for reasons unrelated to its performance in the music business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

Soon I was spending so much time playing with Don that my other pursuits languished.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

While downtown Los Angeles is languishing, Burbank is booming.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 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

Nunes resigned in April after White House advisers told Trump his company was languishing, according to people familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Reports reached us that these Polish Jews were languishing on the border in a squalid no-man's-land of temporary camps.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson