distress
Example Sentences
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Current market conditions, notably “financial distress among a narrow category of carriers,” has historically led to M&A, the Citi analysts said.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026
Google also said its engineers are continuing to train Gemini to recognize conversations that signal a user in distress and that it would contribute $30 million to global crisis-support hotlines.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
"If my cats were ever showing signs of distress, I wouldn't do it with them."
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
Even before a less-than-successful promotional push for “American Girl” led Day to make a distress call to her manager, “we both knew the conversation was coming,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
I can no longer count the number of mothers with whom I’ve cried, their distress so acute that all we could do was lace our hands together and pray silently through tears.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Vocabulary lists containing distress
Don't Distress: Words With Irregular Opposites
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100 SAT Words Beginning with "D"
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"A Modest Proposal," Vocabulary from the satire
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