yearn
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They look at gaping inequalities in society and yearn for change.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Understandably, you yearn for those familiar sights and faces, and the comfort of your former home.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
Eventually, many travelers yearn to put down roots again.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
He said he continued to pray for peace, diplomacy and the “well-being of peoples, who yearn for peaceful existence founded on justice,” according to a translated statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2026
It induces a kind of psychological claustrophobia that makes one yearn not only for freedom of movement but spiritual escape.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
The show ended with Dance With Me, a ballad in which Mars yearns for one last slow dance to save a struggling relationship.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
When healthy, scouts said, he can be the lob threat and defender that Doncic yearns to have.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 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
Gen Z yearns because nothing they see around them suggests that pursuing real-life love is something they should want to do.
From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2026
“Did you honestly think I wouldn’t realize why you came here tonight? As someone who gave me The Crown of a Hero to read, which suggests a rather fanciful mind that yearns for adventure?”
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
That’s the Appalachian landscape that Baurichter, a writer and stay-at-home mother in Higginsport, yearned to return to after a stint in Cincinnati for college.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 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
It was Hockney reaching for the person he yearned to become.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
There were parts of the college experience I yearned to have, but that were impossible as a college athlete.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
“Restaurants are very eager and yearning to get those tables filled.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Instead, Ted’s emphasis on personal growth and camaraderie rebuilds the Greyhounds from their league’s demoralized joke into its comeback kings, powered by their yearning to Believe.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
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
He meets Janine, his equal in appetite and id, sending him into a tailspin of yearning and loops of Sky Ferreira’s “Everything Is Embarrassing” on sadboi walks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Now in America, he was safe, a success even; his Centro de Medicina in the Bronx was thronged with the sick and the homesick yearning to go home again.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
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