discomfort
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The presenter later resigned, while the family expressed their "deep discomfort with the lack of sensitivity, respect and discretion with which some people have treated what is strictly a private family matter".
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
There’s a trade-off: We experience a little emotional discomfort by being constantly surveilled, but we are rewarded with the more physical comforts of safety and efficiency.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026
People are showing up in barely-there outfits to business conferences and weddings, prompting shock and discomfort among other attendees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Actors, musicians and performers train to inhabit perspectives not their own, to remain present through discomfort, and to sustain attention across time.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
She looked around, a weed of discomfort growing thick and spiky in her.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
As the latest heat wave discomforts Europe, France is arguing about air conditioning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
SuperMouth ULTIM8 SmartBrush System – Toothbrushes have long been one of travel’s little discomforts — often still damp from use, or less than effective when you pack a separate “travel” brush.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2025
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
The floor was made of warped planks lull of splinters, and his sleeping pallet smelled of mildew, but those discomforts were mild compared to what Davos had expected.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
He found movement to take the edges of Crawley and Root, then bounced out the discomforted Smith.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025
He was clearly discomforted by the swelling on his foot and had to be stretchered from the field.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025
Though Head made a silky 146 on day one, he was discomforted by the short ball, and when a fired-up Siraj went short again on Thursday morning, Head gloved down the leg side.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2023
Mr. Kriegel’s raw emotion, it was plain, discomforted them.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2022
“Of course — everyone knows —” muttered Mr. Diggory, looking highly discomforted.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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
But there are times to make people uncomfortable enough that they stop discomforting others.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2022
It serves as a reminder of the discomforting way the true crime genre has trained us to consume tragedy and turn murderers, victims, and loved ones left behind into characters.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2022
Something is discomforting about a sun that gives no heat but keeps shining.
From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson
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