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“Their children will languish in the system, and the cycle will continue,” said Stacey Reynolds, a former longtime board member for the National Council for Adoption.

From Washington Post • Jul. 18, 2022

The U.S. will try to complete cases within 180 days, a response to Mexico’s concerns that they will languish in a court system that is backlogged with 1.5 million cases.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2021

But I fear that many of them will languish in the streaming algorithms or in the margins of micro-distribution, estranged from even the smallish publics that might have discovered them.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2021

Indeed, policymakers argue that inflation will languish well below the bank’s target for years to come, so they even reinforced their commitment last month to keeping monetary policy exceptionally loose to generate price pressures.

From Reuters • Aug. 31, 2021

One feeling—turned to utter anguish, Is not my being's only aim; When, lorn and loveless, life will languish, But courage can revive the flame.

From Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell by Brontë, Charlotte