languish

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While Netflix and Paramount Skydance are prepared to pay a stiff price for Warner’s movie, TV and streaming business, Disney shares languish despite controlling some of the industry’s best assets.

From Barron's • Dec. 12, 2025

He and FBI Director Kash Patel on Thursday accused former FBI officials of letting the investigation languish.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

Prior to the earnings report, Jefferies analyst Brent Thill warned that Salesforce’s stock could continue to languish in the near term over AI concerns.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 3, 2025

Fans have been seen accosting board members in hotel lobbies and airports, while on the pitch the team languish 14 points off the Premiership summit as Europe continues to to be a traumatic experience.

From BBC • Nov. 6, 2025

Most academic analyses of this sort tend to languish, unread, on a dusty library shelf.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt