discontent
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Investor optimism in OpenAI has been dampened, writes the FT, citing a "$20bn cut to annualised revenues" as the source of discontent.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
And perhaps the end of Craig Bellamy's summer of discontent.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
The executives have different relationships with different members of the administration and they made their discontent known.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Social media has many users trapped in nostalgia loops, desperately clinging to a simpler era that wasn’t so uniquely mired in digital discontent.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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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
We’ve heard that argument over and over again from politicians and other critics of summer vacation and all its parental and educational discontents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
But there are other discontents still in Moscow, and politically active.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2023
Warehouse labor barks its discontents in “Foul” by the New Orleans post-punk band Special Interest.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 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
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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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