wistfully
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“I wish I could do the whole thing,” said Joe Hernandez of Pasadena, wistfully standing by.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026
"Leather on willow, country pubs and just the loveliness of England," she muses wistfully.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
“All In the Family” signposted its main character’s irascible bigotry and generation-gap grievances in the first minute by having its main character sing wistfully of a time when “Guys like me we had it made.”
From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026
Days later, the conservative and lifelong Atlanticist wistfully called on Germans to put aside nostalgia for an America they had known and loved for decades.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
He tilted his head wistfully as he thought out loud.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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