yearn

They look at gaping inequalities in society and yearn for change.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Understandably, you yearn for those familiar sights and faces, and the comfort of your former home.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

“I call upon all Iranian patriots who yearn for freedom to seize this moment, to be brave, be bold, be heroic, and take back your country,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026

He said he continued to pray for peace, diplomacy and the “well-being of peoples, who yearn for peaceful existence founded on justice,” according to a translated statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2026

Although I’m not an expert on the subject, I’ve always felt that all kids yearn to rebel.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

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

But now, when the 60-year-old yearns for the Pacific, he can land in this newly purchased perch.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026

Dutiful Meg paradoxically longs for leisure and fashionable clothes; impetuous Jo yearns for literary fame; shy, music-loving Beth wishes only for everyone to be happy; artistic Amy craves admiration and status.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

Neither Jackson nor Grace say anything about their past lives back in the city, but he yearns to play drums and she once claimed to write.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025

He wishes that he could go to Nuenen when Theo does, and walk through the old country churchyard with Theo and Pa. His “heart yearns to be together.”

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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

After a dismal Australian Open second-round exit in January, she discussed at length how she yearned to play in "a way more similar to how I was playing when I was younger".

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

As a trans man, Rypinski says that they experienced discrimination and discomfort at other gyms and yearned to connect with the trans community.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026

“Habia una vez a tiny ant yearned to do something more than carry corn all day.”

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

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

They show how Regan made a multipronged assault on clients’ emotions by playing on their vulnerabilities, their need for income and their yearning to believe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

"It is very difficult for the younger generation to find that kind of love. They are yearning for it, they seek it in films."

From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026

Sometimes she’s a scrambling mom with a troubled kid; sometimes she’s an awkward umpire learning on the job; sometimes she’s just yearning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

But then unexpectedly a flame of grievous and terrible yearning flares up.

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