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yearning

[yur-ning] / ˈjɜr nɪŋ /


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The former song is a prog-rock instrumental, while the latter is a yearning piece about striving for success: “I’ve got to keep on chasin’ a dream / I’ve gotta be on my way.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

Instead, Ted’s emphasis on personal growth and camaraderie rebuilds the Greyhounds from their league’s demoralized joke into its comeback kings, powered by their yearning to Believe.

From Salon Aug. 7, 2026

“It’d be wonderful to give the fans something that they’ve been yearning for so many years,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

He is speaking to us trackside at Crystal Palace, its grandstands and shuttered scoreboard almost silenced and yearning to return to their former glory.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

Now in America, he was safe, a success even; his Centro de Medicina in the Bronx was thronged with the sick and the homesick yearning to go home again.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

The photo remains a bellwether even today, revealing more about the yearnings and prejudices of its viewers than about the subject herself.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

I miss a place that did not make me feel ashamed about my most outlandish yearnings and dreams.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 12, 2026

While the fan-theorised second finale has not materialised, a behind-the-scenes documentary showing how season five of the hit TV series came to life hopes to satisfy some of those yearnings and burning questions.

From BBC Jan. 13, 2026

But about Tetiaroa — the Tahitian atoll of his childhood yearnings, and the refuge of his adult life — he did.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 20, 2024

But how could a man build a life upon vague, unformed yearnings?

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright




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