adversities

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Throughout our conversation, she doesn’t shy away from explaining her life’s adversities.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2025

Information about the genetic predisposition for muscle strength could be used alongside traditional risk assessment in identifying individuals who are at particularly high risk of common diseases and health adversities.

From Science Daily • Apr. 12, 2024

“This is a story of 45 individuals providing a window through which we can observe how they endured major adversities and built a society where compassion and mercy prevailed.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2024

While I was guiding troubled young people, helping them overcome the adversities in their lives, my son was left without my guidance when he needed me most.

From Slate • Oct. 12, 2023

Along with everyone else, he had received his own bound and illustrated tale of love, adversities overcome, reunion and a wedding.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan