jealousy
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Loneliness and jealousy have an ironic way of coming up when relationships are at their best.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026
Maintaining clear communication, transparency and documenting the arrangement helps prevent misunderstandings and jealousy among siblings and ensures that the parents’ wishes are honored.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
You can’t control your husband’s alleged jealousy or insecurity, but you can control your own.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
Burke and Hernandez got into an argument the night before prosecutors say she was killed, with the teen expressing frustration and jealousy over Burke’s relationships with other women.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Meggie felt jealousy digging its little claws into her heart.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
There are tantrums, squabbles and romantic jealousies, but it is mostly an opportunity for bravura singing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2025
The details of their dissolution — career pressures, childcare clashes, petty jealousies — and its credible tit-for-tat dynamic are discomfitingly relatable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025
He has his own jealousies and competitiveness with the family.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2023
Rivalries and jealousies within the palaces will be discussed, along with claims of an unhealthy relationship with the tabloid press.
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2023
He believed that the extreme scarcity of just about everything in Haiti, from food to clean water to clothes to shelter, created significant jealousies of anyone who had more than someone else.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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