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discomfort

[dis-kuhm-fert] / dɪsˈkʌm fərt /




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In the first three months after insertion, for instance, 69 percent of participants experienced heavy bleeding, and 28 percent had pelvic discomfort.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

At about 8 p.m., a wave of discomfort swept through the crowd, visible on attendees’ faces as they glanced frequently at their phones, according to people at the event.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

It meant embracing uncertainty, discomfort, wildly unpredictable weather, and limited accommodations in remote villages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

“It involves physical discomfort if you’re getting it wrong, so they’re learning how to move through that.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

But still, something kept me alert to discomfort.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

As the latest heat wave discomforts Europe, France is arguing about air conditioning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

Fans eagerly complain on social media about the creature discomforts of these overstuffed shows: the long lines, the high-priced drinks, the overlapping sets that mean you have to choose between your two favorite bands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2024

After the interview, Isaac and co-host Ronald Young Jr. talk about the challenges and discomforts of self-promotion.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2024

They demonstrate that resilience is not always about unwavering composure but about challenging the status quo, addressing discomforts with candor, and urging listeners to find strength beyond the lures of capitalism.

From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2024

He owed it to his people to take these discomforts in stride.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

The unapologetically Black person wears their Blackness every day, regardless of who is offended or discomforted by it.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

He was clearly discomforted by the swelling on his foot and had to be stretchered from the field.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025

Mr. Kriegel’s raw emotion, it was plain, discomforted them.

From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2022

There were moments when Mitchell played rash drives at James Anderson and was briefly discomforted by short balls from Stokes, while Blundell looked skittish when leg-spinner Matt Parkinson came into the attack.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2022

I apologized by instinct to him for this mishap which discomforted only me.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

That calmed worries that had built on Wall Street that the inflation data could show a discomforting reacceleration.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

The discomforting intimacy of the sequence has stayed with him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023

The absence of a human hand — made glaring and discomforting through the tiniest lapses of approximated intuition — can render the listening experience a valueless exchange, the music a bunk currency.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2023

His modal vocabulary, flecked with pentatonic and other outré accents, could be profoundly ambiguous — sometimes stark, as in “Job,” a ballet in all but name, and sometimes discomforting, as in the otherworldly Sixth.

From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2022

But the fact is, once I had sat down to supper at their table, once a number of their neighbours had come calling, a most discomforting set of events began to unfold around me.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro


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