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consolation

[kon-suh-lay-shuhn] / ˌkɒn səˈleɪ ʃən /


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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

“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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