insecurity
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She says the district’s biggest challenge “is the high percentage of students experiencing housing insecurity, homelessness, and food insecurity.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026
If you know your Austen, you know that financial insecurity drives the narrative.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Recent research on the growth of social supermarkets, external backed the idea that they were less off-putting than food banks and large commercial stores for those facing food insecurity.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Such stores aim to cut food waste while helping people facing food insecurity by selling surplus goods at lower prices.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
I also possessed a certain insecurity, feeling politically backward compared to Walter, Lembede, and Mda.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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“I latched onto fantasy to comfort the insecurities I was dealing with,” Wolf said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
But the 35-year-old actor recalls witnessing the stress and insecurities experienced by friends over who had the most followers, or who followed who on social media.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Riffing on the human need for emotional engagement through the arts with such venom is not just a slap in the face; it’s evidence of Iñárritu’s gnawing insecurities.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
She still loves the song – "Torn was a beautiful gift" – but the furore around it fuelled her insecurities.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Some biographers, pursuing the same interpretive line, have suggested that his deep-rooted insecurities drove him onto the plains of Weehawken and then into the fatal gaze of Aaron Burr.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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