disappointment
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Last year's "Black Ops 7" was also a disappointment, being outsold by its chief competitor, "Battlefield 6".
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
While I spoke with 20 people for this piece, I received 178 individual responses of all kinds, ranging from shock and awe to relative disappointment to distinctly modern moviegoing gripes.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
Yet the questionnaire left enough room for interpretation, triggering disappointment.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
His implied disappointment motivated me to return to UCSB.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
May just looked at Phillip with disappointment, then sighed heavily and turned to Jack, throwing him a truly evil look.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
The studio has had a string of disappointments this year, including Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” and DC Studios’ “Supergirl.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
But recent disappointments in Alzheimer’s research, including hyped medicines based on a shaky hypothesis, have drawn more attention to their work on the brain-destroying mechanisms of FTD and how these might be halted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
"There's great feelings, and there's obviously disappointments, and sometimes the smaller disappointments lead to being a little bit bigger," he added.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
This logjam of disappointments has raised a previously unthinkable possibility: a playoff participant with more regular-season losses than wins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
To a time when we didn’t have to worry about disappointments and arguments and carefully calibrated intermix ratios.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
Vocabulary lists containing disappointment
Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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