discomfort
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Although persistent knee discomfort can have many causes, osteoarthritis is one of the most common.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Stewart, who was placed on the 15-day IL with right shoulder discomfort on July 31, said he’ll join the Dodgers on their upcoming road trip to Colorado and is hopeful he’ll be activated soon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Mr. Chabal detects “a good deal of repression” and a discomfort with Jewishness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
But at some stage it’s likely the discomfort will get too much for the shorts and they may feel forced to buy back their positions.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
My fear and discomfort crept beyond the borders of the classroom and accompanied me out onto the wide boulevards.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
As the latest heat wave discomforts Europe, France is arguing about air conditioning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
After the interview, Isaac and co-host Ronald Young Jr. talk about the challenges and discomforts of self-promotion.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2024
They demonstrate that resilience is not always about unwavering composure but about challenging the status quo, addressing discomforts with candor, and urging listeners to find strength beyond the lures of capitalism.
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2024
Eventually, she says her feeling of "personal responsibility" outweighed the discomforts of her pregnancy.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2023
I’m making it sound pretty bad, but none of us minded the discomforts one bit—it was all part of the excitement of being at the Cottages.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
He was discomforted on 19 by a Carse blow to the ribs - an area England did not explore often enough.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025
Duckett had been discomforted by the short ball and Root caught off a no-ball, yet England refused to temper their aggression.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2023
Mr. Kriegel’s raw emotion, it was plain, discomforted them.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2022
There were moments when Mitchell played rash drives at James Anderson and was briefly discomforted by short balls from Stokes, while Blundell looked skittish when leg-spinner Matt Parkinson came into the attack.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2022
All the same, the reproof in John Holbrook’s voice left her discomforted.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
That calmed worries that had built on Wall Street that the inflation data could show a discomforting reacceleration.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
The discomforting intimacy of the sequence has stayed with him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
If your thirst for strange Santas is still not quenched, this discomforting Mexican morality tale will be the gift that keeps on giving — nightmares, that is.
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2022
But there are times to make people uncomfortable enough that they stop discomforting others.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2022
Something is discomforting about a sun that gives no heat but keeps shining.
From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson
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