yearn

They look at gaping inequalities in society and yearn for change.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

“All his life, he has been taught to yearn for eternity,” Ms. Sy-Quia writes of his deliberations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

The meaning I glean from your words is this: It’s not so much that you yearn for him romantically and fear you made a mistake simply because your life is empty without him.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026

She may still yearn for the approval, acknowledgement, attention and validation of her father, even if she received those things from her stepfather.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 25, 2026

When I do see well enough to walk, my lungs yearn for enough air, and being short of breath, it takes a laborious effort to control my balance.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

Needle drops of Celtic folksongs and poems set to music give the impression that every Irish dirge yearns to get as morbid as “Nearer, My God, to Thee.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026

But now, when the 60-year-old yearns for the Pacific, he can land in this newly purchased perch.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026

"The trend is very strong, whether you like it or not," he said, citing as an example India's rapidly emerging middle class which "yearns to fly".

From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026

But the “champagne wishes and caviar dreams” she yearns for remain out of reach.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025

Now this triad of G yearns to move to the chord lying a fifth below it, C. Adding a seventh to C will make it yearn to move to F, and so on.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

She felt so safe there, she yearned to return.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

But Schulte’s surveys and focus groups clearly showed that men yearned to contribute to care and share obligations equally with women.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026

But I yearned for a way of understanding the world that could make room for both the importance of my past and the existence of my own agency.”

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026

This is the chance they have yearned for.

From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2026

But even as she yearned for help from her family, she knew they were unable to give it to her.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

He is speaking to us trackside at Crystal Palace, its grandstands and shuttered scoreboard almost silenced and yearning to return to their former glory.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

But on the eve of her 22nd birthday, Selines — who speaks in the same honeyed, dulcet tones she sings in — admits that she cringes at the sound of her own teen yearning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

They show how Regan made a multipronged assault on clients’ emotions by playing on their vulnerabilities, their need for income and their yearning to believe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

Ministry official Park Sung-ryeol told AFP events such as the festival helped raise awareness of South Korea's pursuit for "peaceful coexistence, a yearning for peace."

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

Some said it was the most beautiful gun ever made, crafted by a Liccarine gunsmith for her lover, and never a more perfect expression of yearning and devotion had there ever been.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee