yearn
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“He really took the yearn to the next level, really going there with your emotions,” Dean says, stretching really twice to add weight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
They look at gaping inequalities in society and yearn for change.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
But one day, the excitement of the AI trade will come from plunges rather than melt-ups, and when that happens, you will yearn for boredom.
From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026
They say they yearn for a day when Iranians of all religions will be allowed to worship freely in their homeland.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2026
They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives.
From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
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
Gen Z yearns because nothing they see around them suggests that pursuing real-life love is something they should want to do.
From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2026
It yearns mightily for “freedom” and does all it can to escape.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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
He yearned for that same level of comfort and awe at music and wanted to share that with a larger audience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 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
From that day on, part of me yearned to be invisible.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
“We have to invite people back to our city. We have been yearning to get back a big music festival on our beach to showcase the city, because the beach is our best asset.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
“Restaurants are very eager and yearning to get those tables filled.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The hazy love melody “Tremenda,” for example, underscores an intense yearning for connection.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 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
But I was forbidden to go in, for all my yearning at the door.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
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