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While Americans worry about gasoline prices, one of the country’s largest refining companies is languishing in regulatory limbo.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

His team is languishing until Sonny gets behind the wheel and Robert Plant starts wailing and John Bonham begins bashing.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025

Wagner, 38, lasted just five months at Augsburg, which is languishing in 14th in the Bundesliga with just 10 points in a dozen matches.

From Barron's • Dec. 1, 2025

The man behind it, She Zhijiang, is languishing in a Bangkok jail, awaiting extradition to China.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2025

Many a rural church is languishing because of bad economics in the community.

From The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity by Fiske, George Walter