distressingly
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The number and size of American shipyards is distressingly low, while the average age of the workers is distressingly high at 55.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
I won’t give away how she turns up, but Cochran makes horror distressingly real.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025
There are notable exceptions, although they are distressingly few.
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2025
And while prostate cancer remains distressingly common, emerging research suggests that many men can safely delay treatment, or avoid it entirely.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024
From the point of view of his fellow Flatlanders, he has unaccountably disappeared from a closed room and then distressingly materialized from nowhere.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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