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Recent Examples of yearn
Increasingly, professionals in midlife are yearning—some by choice, others from necessity—for reinvention.
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Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
There’s also this timeless, yearning quality to your work in Journey.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025
Our brains and bodies yearn for collective effervescence.
—Florence Williams, Outside Online, 11 May 2025
Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon play the mom and dad of a wealthy family holed up in a posh bunker in a salt mine, George MacKay plays their son who yearns to know about the inhospitable outside world, and Moses Ingram is the stranger who changes everything.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 10 May 2025
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Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
There’s also this timeless, yearning quality to your work in Journey.
—August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025
Our brains and bodies yearn for collective effervescence.
—Florence Williams, Outside Online, 11 May 2025
Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon play the mom and dad of a wealthy family holed up in a posh bunker in a salt mine, George MacKay plays their son who yearns to know about the inhospitable outside world, and Moses Ingram is the stranger who changes everything.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 10 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yearn
Verb
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The question was not only anthropological but highly personal, since the author still longed for a suitable companion.—
James Marcus,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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Buy Now 05 of 10 'How to Lose Your Mother' by Molly Jong-Fast As the only child of writer Erica Jong, whose sensational book Fear of Flying launched her into second-wave feminist stardom, Molly Jong-Fast grew up longing for her mother's affection.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
30 May 2025
Verb
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Parts read like a narrative, other parts sound like a letter to the husband, sometimes explanatory, sometimes apologetic, sometimes pining.—
The Know,
Denver Post,
18 May 2025
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Songs that should blaze by are sluggish while tunes that should pine and linger are sped through.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Yearn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yearn. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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