plight
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He offers instead a soul-print in which Yarris’ plight is captured in the splayed nerve endings of the stage character he creates.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
Her death brought the plight of the gorillas to an ever wider public and a programme of education and eco-tourism followed.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026
“I Swear” features a plight but no plot; it is what TV observers used to call a “disease of the week” movie.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
Gabriela, a 30-year-old Colombian sporting tattoos and clad like most of her fellow sufferers in a white T-shirt, summed up their plight.
From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026
And the American and Soviet police had publicly stated that Mercerism reduced crime by making citizens more concerned about the plight of their neighbors.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Vocabulary lists containing plight
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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