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yearning

[yur-ning] / ˈyɜr nɪŋ /


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The song also reminded Americans what they were fighting for and captured a yearning to be home with family during the festive season.

From The Wall Street Journal

“There’s a yearning for what many people remember as a slower pace.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Those who made up what Ms. Gibson calls the great resistance ultimately drove the movement toward emancipation for the millions yearning to be free.

From The Wall Street Journal

We all hold irrepressible yearnings and desires; they have driven us, across time, to engage with a spiritual world that encompasses beauty and, more importantly, our own inner lives and our connection to community.

From The Wall Street Journal

It’s the mixed blessing of still being close to where you’re from, yet sung with a wisp of yearning.

From Los Angeles Times