yearn

But its mistakes began when they started to yearn for a role in pop culture, a space their existing audience doesn’t understand and often actively hates.

“But they are nothing more than hopes as of now. We yearn to see him in person.”

It did not sound yearning or hopeful, like previous versions I’d heard.

But they are also plangently individual, yearning to harmonize their fates with their true selves.

Time-travelling to Swift's high school days in Tennessee, it reminisces about a boy she confined to the friend zone while yearning for a single kiss.