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yearning

[yur-ning] / ˈyɜr nɪŋ /


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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

Our yearning to forget is superseded by our desire to understand why things are the way they are.

From Salon • May 25, 2026

It’s also about the yearning for a more optimistic era of musical storytelling, when goodness could be counted on to prevail and a happy ending might be delayed but only rarely denied.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

All of this feeds into a broader identity crisis, with supporters yearning for a return to the early Abramovich era, but experiencing similar managerial turnover under the American ownership - without the same consistent success.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

He found himself staring out windows, wistful, yearning for that distant, unattainable horizon.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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