languish

Hunter said: "We know that excess mortality happens when you languish on a hospital trolley."

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

The division is under pressure to show quick results, but it has struggled to recruit prosecutors and has been slowed by an internal turf war that has caused some promising investigations to languish.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Nathan Hochman had let the case languish for nearly his entire first year in office.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

Many celebrity homes that languish on the market are caused by overpricing, as in the Baldwins’ case, or over-personalization, as with Jordan’s sports palace.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026

The good come here as well as the wicked, and all of us languish in this gloom forever, with no hope of freedom, or joy, or sleep, or rest, or peace.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

As a slideshow prepared by an executive explained, “We thrive in the valley of death,” the term for the bureaucratic gap where research languishes without being developed into a product.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

When companies purchased via buyout funds cannot be sold on, investor capital languishes in such funds for years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Too much conservation work currently relies on philanthropists' cash and devoted volunteers, those in the sector say, and much more languishes on the to-do list due to a lack of money.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

Official readouts and state media reports have not said whether Xi and Kim discussed North Korea's nuclear weapons development, for which Pyongyang languishes under international sanctions.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

At this point the house comes in view, and conversation languishes.

From Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess

He languished with Memphis and Washington after consistently contributing to playoff runs with Boston.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

A series of rate hikes by Bank Indonesia have eased some of the pressure on the rupiah recently, but it is only just off the record lows it has languished at in recent months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Bloom, a fuel-cell producer, is a member of the Russell 2000, where it languished for several years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

His Palm Beach compound languished for six years and required $22 million in price cuts before it was sold, while his sprawling Oyster Bay compound on Long Island was recently taken off the market.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026

All of its members, not just those like Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton with famously impoverished origins, would have languished in obscurity in England or France.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

The club he loves are languishing in the third division of Spanish football - and one thing is on his mind.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

While downtown Los Angeles is languishing, Burbank is booming.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

A “negative output gap, a languishing labor market, soft real income growth and unambiguously restrictive monetary policy should alleviate concerns around sticky underlying inflation in the U.K.,” von Ahlen argues.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026

Nunes resigned in April after White House advisers told Trump his company was languishing, according to people familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

One afternoon, evidently, this butler had entered the dining room to make sure all was well for dinner, when he noticed a tiger languishing beneath the dining table.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro