travails
Example Sentences
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That and oil price buoyancy pushed the peso up 10% against the dollar this year despite budgetary travails.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
Stowe’s stirring, Dickensian melodrama of a black family’s travails amid the horrors of slavery was a nationwide sensation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Over the last month while in hospice, Frank did a number of interviews with US media, commenting on his life's work, the current political mood and the travails of the left.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
You can be scared into saving by reading the travails of a person who has realized that they’ve been left behind with Social Security and little else.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
Though Chacko was not a card-holding member of the Party, he had been converted early and had remained, through all its travails, a committed supporter.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
