discontent
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Since Japan, the complaints of the drivers - Verstappen was far from the only driver to express his discontent - have been heard by the sport's bosses.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Youth movements arise regularly in politics, especially in times of partisan discontent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Yabloko offered a potential outlet to express their discontent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Up to 8.7 million voters -- a majority of them women -- will decide whether Hichilema's economic reforms deserve another term or whether the opposition can turn widespread discontent into a comeback.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
He’d then shop at his leisure, much to the discontent of the shop workers who wanted to quit for the day.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Always at the heart of these discontents was the battery—or batteries, because there has been a succession of them, an alchemist’s closet of energy-storing potions in weirdly shaped bottles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
Unlike her previous books, which center on romance and its discontents, “Intermezzo” is about a family relationship: Two brothers, lawyer Peter and chess master Ivan, grapple with their father’s death.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2024
There was a lot of roiling discontents in Harry.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2022
“Parallel Mothers” would make a fine double feature with another recent film about motherhood and its discontents: “The Lost Daughter.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2022
But men must work on, and Wang Lung worked as he had before, although the lengthening warm days and the sunshine and sudden rains filled everyone with longings and discontents.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
Vocabulary lists containing discontent
Power Prefix: dis-
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Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Of Mice and Men
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