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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

On Anne Hathaway’s Penelope, Wilson writes that the script “gives her nothing to do except yearn for Matt Damon, for reasons unknown.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Eventually, many travelers yearn to put down roots again.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

She’d spent decades with the dead, listening to them yearn for past lives that were only half-remembered, distorted by nostalgia.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

What Theódoros most yearns to find is a game of Seven that went missing during World War II and holds precious sentimental value.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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

Veteran pop showman Barry Manilow yearns to be back onstage.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 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

“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

Already recognized as perhaps the top power-hitting second baseman of all time, he yearned for a championship ring to make his career complete.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 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

It was a dreary December without the abundance of snow that Lyddie yearned for.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

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

He tends to speak methodically and carefully — in a way that could seem guarded, but more aptly reflects a chronometric yearning for accuracy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

Three years ago at Telluride, the yearning romantic fantasy “All of Us Strangers” memorably premiered, featuring Scott playing a character who worked through unresolved trauma by talking to the dead.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 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

Musicians and poets saw the countryside as a roughly hewn wilderness, supplying countless images to convey the swirling emotional torrents of the yearning lover.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall