Thesaurus / adversity
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I feel like road games are the best because you’ve got people going at you, and you’ve got a little bit more adversity.
VIRGINIA PULLS AWAY FROM GEORGIA TECH, TIGHTENS GRIP ON FIRST PLACE IN ACCGENE WANGFEBRUARY 11, 2021WASHINGTON POSTStories about overcoming adversity and always, always sticking together.
HOW THREE MINOR LEAGUE TEAMS SAVED HOMETOWN BASEBALLNICK FOURIEZOSFEBRUARY 3, 2021OZYSo I guess sometimes you learn a lot more from defeat and adversity than you do from winning.
STEVE SPAGNUOLO’S DEFENSE FRUSTRATED TOM BRADY IN A SUPER BOWL. THEY’LL MEET UP AGAIN SUNDAY.CINDY BORENFEBRUARY 2, 2021WASHINGTON POSTObviously a lot of adversity the first little bit here, and he’s been our best player every night, and we’re pretty lucky to have him back there right now.
ALEX OVECHKIN RETURNS, SCORES OVERTIME WINNER AS CAPITALS BEAT BRUINS, 4-3SAMANTHA PELLJANUARY 31, 2021WASHINGTON POST“We’ve got a little bit of adversity right now and we’re still finding a way to get points, and I think in the long run that’s going to be very big for us,” Oshie said.
SHORTHANDED CAPITALS EDGE THE ISLANDERS ON JUSTIN SCHULTZ’S LATE GOALSAMANTHA PELLJANUARY 27, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThe state’s vaccination plan does acknowledge that “equity remains a crosscutting consideration” in vaccine distribution, and it notes that some “higher risk” counties, including Shelby, are “disadvantaged and slower to recover from adversity.”
MEMPHIS-AREA RESIDENTS WITHOUT INTERNET MUST WAIT DAYS FOR VACCINATION APPOINTMENTS, WHILE OTHERS GO TO THE FRONT OF THE LINEBY WENDI C. THOMAS AND HANNAH GRABENSTEIN, MLK50: JUSTICE THROUGH JOURNALISMJANUARY 15, 2021PROPUBLICAThe big lesson I’ve come to understand on a deeper level is that adversity is the birthplace of creativity.
EMULATING COMMUTES, APPRECIATING THE ‘LITTLE THINGS’: C-SUITE EXECS SHARE HOW THEY’VE ADAPTED DAILY ROUTINESJESSICA DAVIESJANUARY 14, 2021DIGIDAYThe great American tradition of an inaugural ceremony has occurred in times of peace, in times of turmoil, in times of prosperity, and in times of adversity.
AN INAUGURATION LIKE NO OTHERROXANNE ROBERTSJANUARY 13, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThe Lightning clearly know how to handle adversity, and they’re entering the new season with enough of their championship-winning roster intact to be scary.
CAN THE LIGHTNING REPEAT? ARE THE AVS FOR REAL? WHAT TO WATCH IN THE 2020-21 NHL SEASON.TERRENCE DOYLEJANUARY 13, 2021FIVETHIRTYEIGHTOne hope is that the adversity and flexibility prompted by the pandemic yield dividends when the athletes find themselves under the bright Olympic lights.
A YEAR FROM BEIJING OLYMPICS, CORONAVIRUS WREAKS HAVOC WITH WINTER SPORTS SCHEDULESRICK MAESEJANUARY 12, 2021WASHINGTON POSTSYNONYM OF THE DAY
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WORDS RELATED TO ADVERSITY
- adversity
- affliction
- albatross
- anguish
- annoyance
- bane
- blow
- bother
- burden
- calvary
- care
- complication
- cross to bear
- crucible
- difficulty
- distress
- drag
- grief
- hard time
- hardship
- hassle
- heartbreak
- inconvenience
- irritation
- load
- misery
- misfortune
- nightmare
- nuisance
- ordeal
- pain
- pain in the neck
- pest
- plague
- rigor
- severe test
- sorrow
- suffering
- thorn
- tribulation
- trying time
- unhappiness
- vexation
- vicissitude
- visitation
- woe
- wretchedness
- adversity
- affliction
- albatross
- bad luck
- blow
- bummer
- burden
- care
- cross to bear
- crucible
- curse
- difficulty
- distress
- double whammy
- downer
- drag
- grief
- hard knock
- hard time
- headache
- heartache
- misery
- misfortune
- oppression
- ordeal
- persecution
- rainy day
- reverse
- sorrow
- suffering
- trial
- trouble
- vexation
- visitation
- woe
- worry
- wretchedness
- wronging
- accident
- adversity
- affliction
- bad luck
- bad omen
- bane
- blight
- blow
- blunder
- calamity
- casualty
- catastrophe
- collapse
- curse
- defeat
- destroyer
- difficulty
- disgrace
- doom
- downfall
- error
- failure
- fault
- faux pas
- flaw
- fumble
- grief
- humiliation
- last straw
- misadventure
- miscalculation
- mischance
- mishap
- misstep
- omission
- overthrow
- overturn
- reversal
- reverse
- ruin
- ruination
- shame
- slip
- smash
- stumble
- subversion
- trial
- trip
- trouble
- visitation
- weakness
- wreck
- accident
- adversity
- affliction
- annoyance
- anxiety
- bad break
- bad luck
- bad news
- blow
- burden
- calamity
- casualty
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- contretemps
- cross
- crunch
- debacle
- disadvantage
- disappointment
- discomfort
- dole
- failure
- haplessness
- hard luck
- hardship
- harm
- inconvenience
- infelicity
- loss
- misadventure
- mischance
- misery
- mishap
- nuisance
- reverse
- rotten luck
- setback
- tough luck
- tragedy
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- unluck
- unluckiness
- unpleasantness
- untowardness
- visitation
- worry
- accident
- adversity
- affliction
- annoyance
- anxiety
- bad break
- bad luck
- bad news
- blow
- burden
- calamity
- casualty
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- contretemps
- cross
- crunch
- debacle
- disadvantage
- disappointment
- discomfort
- dole
- failure
- haplessness
- hard luck
- hardship
- harm
- inconvenience
- infelicity
- loss
- misadventure
- mischance
- misery
- mishap
- nuisance
- reverse
- rotten luck
- setback
- tough luck
- tragedy
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- unfortunateness
- unluck
- unpleasantness
- untowardness
- visitation
- worry
- accident
- adversity
- affliction
- annoyance
- anxiety
- bad break
- bad luck
- bad news
- blow
- burden
- calamity
- casualty
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- contretemps
- cross
- crunch
- debacle
- disadvantage
- disappointment
- discomfort
- dole
- failure
- haplessness
- hard luck
- hardship
- harm
- inconvenience
- infelicity
- loss
- misadventure
- mischance
- misery
- mishap
- nuisance
- reverse
- rotten luck
- setback
- tough luck
- tragedy
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- unfortunateness
- unluck
- unluckiness
- unpleasantness
- visitation
- worry
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