- present participle of yearn.
yearning
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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
“Restaurants are very eager and yearning to get those tables filled.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
“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
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
She woke later that night to hear voices—despairing, yearning voices.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
In imagining her disturbed perceptions, the novel shows the old dog’s circumscribed world transfigured by long forgotten yearnings and powerfully altered understandings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 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
"I always had these yearnings for a lifestyle that was different to the materialistic lifestyle," he explains.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2025
In Vice President Kamala Harris’ nomination acceptance speech were recurring themes speaking to Americans’ yearnings to feel their country as one of “common unity”:
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2024
The Abbot put his paw around the young mouse’s shoulder, sensing his secret yearnings, for he had ruled Redwall wisely over a great number of years and gained much experience of mouselife.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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