yearn
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And yet, children often yearn to hear about their parents’ past, including memories of trauma, particularly as they become adults.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
Some people yearn for zero debt, so your decision isn’t strictly about the numbers — as compelling as they are — it’s also about your risk tolerance as you enjoy your retirement.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 8, 2026
They look at gaping inequalities in society and yearn for change.
From BBC ● Jul. 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
Badenhorst would supposedly make us yearn for the days of Suitcase.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Needless to say, the young narrator soon yearns to marry the lovely and ethereal Blanche.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
A version of what the Moneyist reader yearns for actually already exists.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
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
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
“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
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
It was a day we had yearned for and fought for over so many years.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
The effect is less a fall than a settling—from yearning into tenderness, like an audible sigh.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
“We have to invite people back to our city. We have been yearning to get back a big music festival on our beach to showcase the city, because the beach is our best asset.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
"So I was personally yearning for hooks and verses that are as powerful as choruses. Like an Elton John song where the melody just breaks your heart."
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
The former song is a prog-rock instrumental, while the latter is a yearning piece about striving for success: “I’ve got to keep on chasin’ a dream / I’ve gotta be on my way.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Like Dasch, he was ambitious, yearning for more power and success.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
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"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
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