pining
Example Sentences
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By all accounts, investors are pining for shares.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
Speaking to the BBC from New York, Baranski said she had been pining to return to her theatre roots for some time.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
It’s still an expansive saga, though a graceless opening had this viewer pining for the 2024 French version with Pierre Niney as Edmond Dantès.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
For decades engineers, architects, futurists, industrialists, investors and politicians have been pining for a better, faster and cheaper way to build homes.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026
“The one you’re pining after. The one you dressed up for that one night. The one you’re so completely in love with.”
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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