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It’s mostly been in chronological order, and sometimes just in the background while she’s working on something else but craving the show’s comforting familiarity.

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Goodall also witnessed chimpanzees embracing and comforting each other after the death of a loved one.

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Great Big Game Show – My wife and I love game shows for their low-stakes, comforting fun, so discovering the Great Big Game Show was a no-brainer.

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They mean, “I put on episodes I’ve seen before and it’s comforting in a profoundly, sleepy way.”

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And in Paul Thomas Anderson’s sprawling contemporary epic “One Battle After Another,” it’s startling just how comforting a cinematic hand on the shoulder can be.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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