pining
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At that point, Lightbody was pining for a woman who'd rejected his advances.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
She’s a poet, and I think she really understands girlhood — the pining and the wanting to be accepted — and she does it in such a beautiful and majestic way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
The lack of a son’s POV makes Boy Mom pining both performative and disturbingly real.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026
By all accounts, investors are pining for shares.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
“It’s like a teen movie cliché. You have the choreographed group dance number and the weird pining eye contact, and then the big smoochy kiss.”
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
Through countless cosmos, breakups, musings and pinings, we felt we knew her – well, the characters she helped craft anyway.
From US News ● Jan. 13, 2014
One day—then comes the feast enchanting That shall all pinings well requite.
From Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe by Brooks, Charles Timothy
His whims ye must follow, His transports though fleet, His pinings too sweet Though often comes sorrow, The thousand delights The wounds of his darts Still charm all the hearts.
From The Imaginary Invalid by Wall, Charles Heron
“O agonistic throes,” tender, passionate yearnings, pinings, triumphant joys, sweet dreams—I took from you all.
From The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman by Gilchrist, Anne Burrows
What hearts at war with themselves! what unceasing regrets! what pinings after the past! what long and beautiful years devoted to a moral grave, by a momentary rashness, an impulse, a disappointment!
From The Pilgrims of the Rhine by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
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