consolation
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That's little consolation for those involved in Welsh education.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
But its dominant impression is a dark one that allows for little consolation in the remembrance of war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
One possible consolation for people who didn’t get superlow mortgage rates: the opportunity to invest in higher-yielding mortgage bonds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
England will also try to deny Australia a consolation bronze, before teams transform the Hydro from a netball court back to a gig venue for the closing ceremony on Sunday night.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Amaranta Úrsula, who already had her second teeth, thought of her nephew as a scurrying toy who was a consolation for the tedium of the rain.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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“Before You Were Anne” is a poignant story with consolations small and transcendent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Earl then bagged yet another Saracens score in between Sale consolations from O'Flaherty and Opoku-Fordjour to cap a historic afternoon for Mark McCall's men.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026
Let's give the biblical authors credit for taking the sublimity of our loss straight up instead of chasing false consolations.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2024
And memory — what consolations can it offer when we know it doesn’t last?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2023
Without the support of old certainties and consolations, almost mechanically, he assumes the procedures and doctrines of the classroom.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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