yearning
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Young people are wearing wired headphones and yearning for an analog time they never got to experience.
From Barron's • May 31, 2026
What’s more, research has long shown that globally engaged companies tend to create the good jobs at good wages for which so many Americans are yearning.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
Our yearning to forget is superseded by our desire to understand why things are the way they are.
From Salon • May 25, 2026
With his guitar in hand, and reverb cranked up to 11, Gonzalez joined Karol in debuting their spectral new shoegaze ballad, “Después de Ti,” which was steeped in yearning and performed entirely in Spanish.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
I had a great yearning, lately, to pay my father back for all the years of neglect, and start tending his grave.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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