discomfort
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But at some stage it’s likely the discomfort will get too much for the shorts and they may feel forced to buy back their positions.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
But other times we have to stop because of discomfort or panic, a reality that affects us for the worse.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
In his first appearance since June, the 24-year-old Briton took France's Terence Atmane to three sets before recurring discomfort appeared to limit his play and he lost 6-3 2-6 6-2.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Before the game, the Dodgers put reliever Will Klein on the 15-day injured list with discomfort in his right elbow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
“Yeah, my parents paint,” he said, his tone a mixture of pride and discomfort.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
As the latest heat wave discomforts Europe, France is arguing about air conditioning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
After the interview, Isaac and co-host Ronald Young Jr. talk about the challenges and discomforts of self-promotion.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2024
For Mason Kidd, a 22-year-old freelance film producer, those are small discomforts worth bearing to watch history.
From BBC ● May 11, 2024
They demonstrate that resilience is not always about unwavering composure but about challenging the status quo, addressing discomforts with candor, and urging listeners to find strength beyond the lures of capitalism.
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2024
But all of those discomforts were nothing against their lack of water.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
Boland was poor in the first innings, but first discomforted Duckett with a blow to the back elbow then drew the left-hander into a poke to second slip.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025
He was clearly discomforted by the swelling on his foot and had to be stretchered from the field.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025
Mr. Kriegel’s raw emotion, it was plain, discomforted them.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2022
There were moments when Mitchell played rash drives at James Anderson and was briefly discomforted by short balls from Stokes, while Blundell looked skittish when leg-spinner Matt Parkinson came into the attack.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2022
I apologized by instinct to him for this mishap which discomforted only me.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
That calmed worries that had built on Wall Street that the inflation data could show a discomforting reacceleration.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
The discomforting intimacy of the sequence has stayed with him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
It is a prospect that has some people bracing for possibly discomforting disclosures.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
But there are times to make people uncomfortable enough that they stop discomforting others.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2022
But the fact is, once I had sat down to supper at their table, once a number of their neighbours had come calling, a most discomforting set of events began to unfold around me.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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