discouragement
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That mix of discouragement and discontent surfaced repeatedly, like a dull ache, in conversations with dozens of voters across the San Gabriel Valley.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2026
While ChatGPT occasionally offered discouragement, only the chatbots from Snap and Anthropic reliably refused these requests, according to the researchers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
They got 40 before discouragement, exhaustion, and, eventually, a torrential downpour forced the group to disband.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2024
Takes landing on the “not-so-good” side of the plate are accompanied by his passionate discouragement from leaving bad reviews based on his evaluations.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2023
Thomas’s discouragement grew with every toss, until it turned into a heavy mass of blah.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
If the United Nations were useful for nothing else, it would be imperative to keep it alive … We can have no illusions about the discouragements which lie ahead.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2023
A player who understands the disappointments and discouragements that not just Capitals fans, but a generation of Washington fans carry deep in their hearts.
From Washington Times ● May 6, 2018
This comes on top of other discouragements to growth.
From Economist ● Mar. 1, 2018
After years of discouragements there, and worried that their children would grow up Dutch, the people who came to be known as Pilgrims decided to settle in Virginia.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
But they do not need many allowances, if it will only be remembered under what discouragements they labored and how much they accomplished.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
