discontent
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It’s been a summer of discontent for the momentum trade, which has mostly been hot artificial-intelligence-themed stocks that investors chased higher and could not get enough of, until they did.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
Just below the surface, however, the soccer world was seething with discontent.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
Her government’s handling of a devastating earthquake in June has added to the discontent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
The discontent among India's youth and the courage to voice it on the streets spread to other parts of the country.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Ever since the Hunger Games, the discontent in District 8 had been growing.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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
Warehouse labor barks its discontents in “Foul” by the New Orleans post-punk band Special Interest.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2022
And second, “Less” covers all the joys and discontents of travel, and so does Greer’s new follow-up novel, “Less Is Lost.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2022
There was a lot of roiling discontents in Harry.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 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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