consolation

Adjusted for inflation, truckers aren’t yet filling up at 2022 levels, but that is small consolation: Diesel prices have soared 56% since the war began and $2.14 a gallon from a year ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Pascal Gross then headed in a 96th-minute consolation goal after a dangerous long throw-in was not dealt with.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

U.S. natural gas futures settled lower with little consolation from the smallest inventory build of the season to date.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

England will also try to deny Australia a consolation bronze, before teams transform the Hydro from a netball court back to a gig venue for the closing ceremony on Sunday night.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

He expressed his grief over his brother’s death and his consolation in the knowledge that James was in heaven united with their mother and father.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Nothing like the durable consolations of late-life romance, but headier, more exciting and, in the worst cases, far more damaging.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

Earl then bagged yet another Saracens score in between Sale consolations from O'Flaherty and Opoku-Fordjour to cap a historic afternoon for Mark McCall's men.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026

Throughout the book she displays the fundamental bewilderment of the secular postmodernist contending with huge life events while cut off from the consolations of any one tradition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

Let's give the biblical authors credit for taking the sublimity of our loss straight up instead of chasing false consolations.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2024

“Too awful,” she kept repeating, and all Bernard’s consolations were in vain.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley