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  • present participle of yearn.
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yearning

[yur-ning] / ˈjɜr nɪŋ /


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Frustrated, I find myself yearning for an expert.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

Will it capture Austen’s witty text and unforgettable scenes of yearning?

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 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

“Restaurants are very eager and yearning to get those tables filled.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

They pulsated with the love of all things alive, a powerful yearning that Sierra could taste.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

In a time when teen life is subsumed by alienating digital technology and an understandable risk-aversion, “Nimrods” takes the yearnings of its young punks seriously.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

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 Jan. 23, 2026

While the fan-theorised second finale has not materialised, a behind-the-scenes documentary showing how season five of the hit TV series came to life hopes to satisfy some of those yearnings and burning questions.

From BBC Jan. 13, 2026

In Vice President Kamala Harris’ nomination acceptance speech were recurring themes speaking to Americans’ yearnings to feel their country as one of “common unity”:

From Salon Aug. 27, 2024

And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse




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