yearn

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

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 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

Who doesn’t yearn to clean up their mistakes and find some semblance of happiness, even when contentment seems so far out of reach?

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026

She may still yearn for the approval, acknowledgement, attention and validation of her father, even if she received those things from her stepfather.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 25, 2026

One time he blacked out all but the salutation “Dear Mary” from a letter, and at the bottom he wrote, “I yearn for you tragically. R. O. Shipman, Chaplain, U.S. Army.”

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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

Needle drops of Celtic folksongs and poems set to music give the impression that every Irish dirge yearns to get as morbid as “Nearer, My God, to Thee.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 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

Given his profoundly narcissistic personality, he would prefer to be loved by all, and still yearns for such an implausible outcome.

From Salon ● Dec. 4, 2025

My inherent idealism yearns for the issuance of the commemorative stamp and the living document of The Autobiography of Malcolm X to continue to bridge ignorance with insight, and despondency with hope.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

Already recognized as perhaps the top power-hitting second baseman of all time, he yearned for a championship ring to make his career complete.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

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

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 believed that she yearned for me as much as I did for her.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

“You Wished for This” careens from ponderous ambience to shredded digital noise; The two parts of “Love is in the Air” recasts the yearning of a classic Hollywood love theme into a blood-soaked rictus grin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

That era’s prime-time schedules illustrate the tension between insistent progress and a yearning for supposedly simpler times – a feeling similar to what we’re experiencing now.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 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

This was the backdrop for Johnson’s “Sweet Home Chicago,” a yearning for a better place recorded in 1936.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

They pulsated with the love of all things alive, a powerful yearning that Sierra could taste.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older