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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Wanting things
ache for something
acquisitive
ambitious
ambitiously
angle for something
desperate
expense
fancy
have your eye on somethingidiom
hunger
hunger after/for something
hungrily
pine
seeker
set your heart on something/doing somethingidiom
set your sights on somethingidiom
shook
shopping list
sight
someone's heart's desireidiom

yearn | American Dictionary

yearn
verb[ I ]
us/jɜrn/
to desire something strongly, esp. something difficult or impossible to obtain:
[ + to infinitive ]Joy yearns to earn enough money from her job as a doctor’s assistant for her to become independent.

Examples of yearn

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It can also inform larger questions about what it is we yearn for when we imagine effective public language and viable political identity.
If we yearn to retain those approaches, his attempt is probably as good as we can get.
The speaker does not yearn for heavenly light, but a humble "beacon" of human manufacture.
In the absence of visible and certain revelation, the texts substituted narrative, with its yearning appeal for an enabling hermeneutic reciprocity.
Europeans do not embrace extremely anti-immigrant views, but neither are they yearning to welcome the world's huddled masses.
They yearn to manufacture human-alien hybrids, ethical androids and genetically programmed clones.
The end results were very satisfying but must have left them yearning for a more rapid method for resolving rock fabrics.
The yearning for performance is displaced entirely into narratives recounting that yearning.
Since these educators yearn to maintain involvement with students throughout their careers, a desirable career structure must spotlight pedagogy.
He yearns for this high art regime to be destabilized, and sees the influence of mechanical reproduction as a groundbreaking intervention.
Should we yearn for a return to the conditions of the 1950s and 1960s?
However, it is the virtue of this book, like all good books, to make the reader yearn for more.
The picturesque hinted at, and yearned for, other social and urbanistic possibilities than were on offer in a city of remorseless modernity.
The classical violin's rising, yearning variant was answered by the klezmer violin's freer version, their dialogue expanding through everwidening arpeggios, over sustained pedal points.
Far from yearning for a stable and fixed past, female writers displace it by attempting to manipulate the collective memory that sanctions men's dominance and women's submission.
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