longing
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The Queen says she was "longing" to share her experience while launching a cancer support centre just days after learning of her husband's diagnosis, according to the Daily Express.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
It’s impossible to see an expression on the girl’s face, but a feeling of longing emanates from the glass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
As a form of media, mail-order catalogs themselves were a story of longing and aspiration that came to define shopping as an American way of life.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
“We must start longing for the future. These reforms have one goal: We are setting off into the future.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Yet the very thought made her blush scarlet, for how many heavy-hearted hours had Penelope spent longing for just such a reunion?
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
He has no apparent convictions, only Freudian longings for an idealized childhood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
His voice - bruised, buttery and intimate - has been an inescapable undercurrent of Bollywood, narrating heartbreaks, longings and reconciliations for millions for more than a decade.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026
Great beauty turns out to be no defense against the longings of the heart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025
One of our most fundamental longings as social beings is to belong, especially to a community.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2024
I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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