dissatisfaction
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As they bicker and jab, their quiet dissatisfaction with their lives stops being so quiet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Another possibility is that the strike reflects growing dissatisfaction with the direction of negotiations.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
He said one of the most common sentiments he hears from voters whose doors he knocks on is broad dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026
“He faced dissatisfaction with the actions of his father on the part of several major figures, as well as unrest in several areas brought into the Mercian fold by Offa.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
At last he feels that he belongs in the classroom, and this is exactly the source of the dissatisfaction he causes.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
But “The Book of Ayn” is rife with dissatisfactions — to its credit — and with self-aware jokes and serious questions about self-awareness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
The Harvard economics professor Ken Rogoff points out that many of the dissatisfactions it seeks to address would be more effectively achieved by a rigorous assault on monopolies than a take-down of the free market.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 19, 2018
The administrative job’s innate dissatisfactions are written between the lines of these books.
From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2018
He added, “Perhaps my basic dissatisfactions are what motivate me.”
From New York Times ● May 19, 2017
Anna could not go on with her fault-finding, her criticism, her expression of dissatisfactions.
From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
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