yearn

Here she writes of a persnickety English couple, freshly retired, who yearn to meet people with the same interests and standards as themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

And yet, children often yearn to hear about their parents’ past, including memories of trauma, particularly as they become adults.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026

Instead of being positioned before crisp backgrounds like static dioramas, they’re backed by blurry freeze frames that yearn to be in motion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Some people yearn for zero debt, so your decision isn’t strictly about the numbers — as compelling as they are — it’s also about your risk tolerance as you enjoy your retirement.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 8, 2026

We reach the shelter of the reserves and yearn to creep in and disappear;—but instead we must turn round and plunge again into the horror.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

Behind her trad-wife trappings, Barbara yearns to breathe free; Ibby, a blond beauty born to be disappointed, needs a friend and Barbara is it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

A version of what the Moneyist reader yearns for actually already exists.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026

The show ended with Dance With Me, a ballad in which Mars yearns for one last slow dance to save a struggling relationship.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

Veteran pop showman Barry Manilow yearns to be back onstage.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

“You saw what you wished to see. Your heart yearns for your father and your home, so that is what you saw.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

That’s the Appalachian landscape that Baurichter, a writer and stay-at-home mother in Higginsport, yearned to return to after a stint in Cincinnati for college.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

She felt so safe there, she yearned to return.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

But Schulte’s surveys and focus groups clearly showed that men yearned to contribute to care and share obligations equally with women.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026

But I yearned for a way of understanding the world that could make room for both the importance of my past and the existence of my own agency.”

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026

I yearned to uncover all his history, like parting the petals of a closed bud.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Its strangeness is the embodiment of a child’s yearning consciousness, a landscape of such heightened sensitivity that it can seem almost otherworldly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

“Victoria has layers on what she can do,” says Lucky Daye, who joins her for a yearning duet, “Maybe,” with a bit of Patti LaBelle-and-Michael McDonald energy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

In so many ways, the works that remain tell the deepest, truest story of yearning, resilience, love—of all that cannot be spoken.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Will it capture Austen’s witty text and unforgettable scenes of yearning?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

She did not want to wake up from that dream, and when she did she turned her face into the pillow, yearning to spend one more moment in that summer afternoon.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo