consolation
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Red card, consolation pizza for USA soccer fans.
From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026
Joao Pedro's stoppage-time overhead kick did save Chelsea the humiliation of losing six matches in a row without scoring for the first time in their history, but it was scant consolation.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
“I guess we can’t do that, babe,” Cohen, 36, a vacationer from New Jersey, told 3½ -year-old Chloe, who stared back, confused, then got an ice pop as consolation.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
Absent that, Donnyland could be an attractive consolation prize.
From Salon • Apr. 30, 2026
Abigail decided to write a letter of consolation, explaining that “reasons of various kinds witheld my pen, until the powerful feelings of my heart, have burst through the restraint.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing consolation
Grade 9, List 4
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100 SAT words Beginning with "C"
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