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

“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

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

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

Now this triad of G yearns to move to the chord lying a fifth below it, C. Adding a seventh to C will make it yearn to move to F, and so on.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

After Spooner made his documentary, he realized how much the film resonated with Black punks who yearned for community and acceptance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 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

But he still yearned for a more tangible description of the gene.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Protests against data centers and Flock cameras aren’t just about opposing AI, Tim Higgins writes for The Journal—they show a yearning for an American ideal without AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

The former song is a prog-rock instrumental, while the latter is a yearning piece about striving for success: “I’ve got to keep on chasin’ a dream / I’ve gotta be on my way.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 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

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 found himself staring out windows, wistful, yearning for that distant, unattainable horizon.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor