yearn

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

“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

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

And it was lonely, to yearn so, all alone.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

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

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

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026

Iris is a financial secretary who yearns to become a powerful banker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

Maybe he yearns to transform MLB into the NHL of my childhood, with six teams.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 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

I was a painfully shy introvert with a unibrow who yearned to be an elderly shut-in by age 9.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

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

He yearned to be the first to find Hen Wen and he turned aside, clambered through the weeds—to discover nothing more than a boulder.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

Protests against data centers and Flock cameras aren’t just about opposing AI, Tim Higgins writes for The Journal—they show a yearning for an American ideal without AI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

“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

“It’d be wonderful to give the fans something that they’ve been yearning for so many years,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 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