as in fades
to lose bodily strength or vigor
older people, especially, were languishing during the prolonged heat wave
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Recent Examples of languishes
Mars languishes low in morning twilight for the fifth month in a row.
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Joe Rao,
Space.com,
2 May 2026
In the second, supply balloons while demand languishes, which could happen if, for example, the AI bubble pops.
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Big Think,
22 Apr. 2026
No such luck with Imperfect Women, which languishes in the same genre space but is perfectly obvious in comparison, a series that solves its mystery halfway through the season but still keeps going.
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Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
Manu has found a home, but in the human world her mother languishes in a detention facility and her father, the head of a criminal enterprise, is known among her friends as a rebel who has disappeared and is assumed dead.
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Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
15 Feb. 2026
Those that finish from first to eighth in the league phase will automatically go through, and while Barca currently languishes in 15th, a win could take them up into the threshold depending on how other results pan out.
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Tom Sanderson,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
Ditto for his team’s penalty kill, which languishes in the Eastern Conference basement.
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Julian McKenzie,
New York Times,
3 Jan. 2026
That blueprint has since become a template for developers eager to cultivate exclusivity while testing pricing in private and avoiding the public scrutiny of how many days a home languishes on the open market.
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Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
22 Dec. 2025
However, more volatility could be in store as bitcoin languishes more than 30% below its record high and nerves linger about the yen carry trade.
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John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
1 Dec. 2025
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
2 May 2026
In the second, supply balloons while demand languishes, which could happen if, for example, the AI bubble pops.
—
Big Think,
22 Apr. 2026
No such luck with Imperfect Women, which languishes in the same genre space but is perfectly obvious in comparison, a series that solves its mystery halfway through the season but still keeps going.
—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
Manu has found a home, but in the human world her mother languishes in a detention facility and her father, the head of a criminal enterprise, is known among her friends as a rebel who has disappeared and is assumed dead.
—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
15 Feb. 2026
Those that finish from first to eighth in the league phase will automatically go through, and while Barca currently languishes in 15th, a win could take them up into the threshold depending on how other results pan out.
—
Tom Sanderson,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
Ditto for his team’s penalty kill, which languishes in the Eastern Conference basement.
—
Julian McKenzie,
New York Times,
3 Jan. 2026
That blueprint has since become a template for developers eager to cultivate exclusivity while testing pricing in private and avoiding the public scrutiny of how many days a home languishes on the open market.
—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
22 Dec. 2025
However, more volatility could be in store as bitcoin languishes more than 30% below its record high and nerves linger about the yen carry trade.
—
John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
1 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for languishes
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But rental business owners like Zhao observed that the rental prices have begun to slide as novelty surrounding these stunt-performing androids fades.
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But as hope of finding survivors fades and the number of dead continues to climb, many fear the political aftershocks of the disaster may prove nearly as destabilizing as the earthquake itself.
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When foreign investors pull money out of the country, demand for the rupiah drops, and the currency weakens.
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Every interaction either builds confidence or weakens it.
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There is no scrapeable archive of how to grasp a wet cup, unload a box that sags in the middle, fold a towel, or help an older adult out of a chair.
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As a result, the tournament typically sags in the middle, as neither comes close to losing.
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Valdez, whose seat goes from Brooklyn to Queens, accused her opponent inaccurately of getting pro-Israel donations.
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The bus goes more places more frequently than trains, filling a niche like no other.
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But too often that has become shorthand for a stodgy and unresponsive sector that fails to respond to customer demand.
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Standard sonar often fails in shallow waters, while cameras are blinded by shifting sands and the simple distortion of rolling ocean waves.
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From the laundry room to the kitchen countertops to the bathroom sinks to the light fixtures, Natalie Randolph's first new house is starting to feel like home, and that is a good feeling.
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When a whale dies, its body sinks to the ocean floor in a process called whale fall.
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