longing for
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The only way through this marital disconnect and fear of and longing for retirement is through the figures.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
After processing the heartache of losing another parent in a different way, Tomlinson allowed herself to miss the good memories with her father and assuage any longing for revenge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
“It’s to children’s fiction that you turn if you want to feel awe and hunger and longing for justice,” she writes, “to make the old warhorse heart stamp again in its stall.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
It was still not easy for Gonzalez to leave Manchester City, where he felt settled, but Newcastle will give him the platform he has been longing for as a key player.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
How well I recall it, how grateful I am that not all the clamour which invaded our lives later could subdue the memory or still the longing for it.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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