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has languished

  • present perfect of languish (3rd person singular).

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And yet, oil has languished below $100 a barrel for over three weeks.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 13, 2026

He has languished since in a New York jail.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 9, 2026

In recent times, steel production in Germany has languished at 10 to 15 percent below 2022 levels.

From Barron's Nov. 6, 2025

Nvidia's market cap has soared past $4 trillion while Intel's has languished at around $100bn.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2025

And so it has languished ever since then, and I am afraid I have lost the MSS. that contained all that there was of it long ago.

From Far Off Things by Machen, Arthur