: a tender or urgent longing
a yearning for justice
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had a sudden yearning for something sweet
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There, a wide playing space where our focus could float, softening in the play’s desert air and in the yearning tenderness of its characters, felt exactly right, and Cromer could conduct with more breath, subtle poignancy, and looseness of grip.
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
And its yearning idealism is a good antidote to the current prevailing cynicism.
—ArsTechnica, 2 Apr. 2025
The ambiguity, the exaltation and sarcastic self-parody, the gloom alternating with a yearning for simplicity and even for redemption—all of that reflected the split consciousness of Jews who could never belong and turned revenge upon themselves.
—David Denby, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2025
This week, Alphonse grapples with the yearning for the 2000s in UK underground rap videos.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 21 Mar. 2025
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
And its yearning idealism is a good antidote to the current prevailing cynicism.
—ArsTechnica, 2 Apr. 2025
The ambiguity, the exaltation and sarcastic self-parody, the gloom alternating with a yearning for simplicity and even for redemption—all of that reflected the split consciousness of Jews who could never belong and turned revenge upon themselves.
—David Denby, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2025
This week, Alphonse grapples with the yearning for the 2000s in UK underground rap videos.
—Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 21 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for yearning
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“Yearning.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yearning. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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