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inconvenience

[in-kuhn-veen-yuhns] / ˌɪn kənˈvin jəns /




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Hill realises that Cardiff is no stranger to hosting big events, but said "every big event at the Principality Stadium is an inconvenience to the people that live here".

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

In this environment, hunger can represent a giant inconvenience.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

While the inconvenience and brutality has certainly kept us angry and alert, there’s little proof it has made us safer.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

As the saying goes, the cost of community is inconvenience.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

Joe didn’t want babies either so all those miscarriages—two in the field, only one in her bed—were more inconvenience than loss.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

To avoid our planet’s environmental inconveniences, the stilts can rise above any inclement weather.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

Small inconveniences you overlook on vacation can become major issues when they are part of your daily life.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 29, 2025

"Although, yes, there are inconveniences, the majority of the population is ready for this," he insisted.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2025

"In this study, we're talking about daily stressors, the minor inconveniences that occur throughout the day, but there's also chronic stress where people are continually impacted by stressors again and again," Witzel said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2025

“It appears to me one of those questions which present great inconveniences whichever way it is decided,” he wrote his new son-in-law.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

To be Austin at a World Cup match is to rarely be inconvenienced.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

However, some ways of being inconvenienced are more draining than others.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026

Gray calls this attitude part of “conspicuous resilience,” conflating being temporarily displaced and inconvenienced with being oppressed and vulnerable, leading to the celebration and glorification of a recovery that mostly benefits the few.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025

Stellantis said it was "inevitable" that customers would be inconvenienced.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025

It may have inconvenienced some charging bellowing officials but for us it made of Washington the most beautiful city in the world, a quiet place.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

She later apologized to her security detail, secretaries and driver for inconveniencing them by starting at such an early hour.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

With no workers left, heaps of trash have been overflowing from public bins and dump yards on to the streets, inconveniencing residents.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2025

On Saturday morning, in a two-minute address to the nation, Yoon apologized for inconveniencing the public and said that he had been motivated by “desperation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2024

There is no way to get rid of the rats without inconveniencing people.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2023

But they no longer had it in them to quietly take the blame and apologize for inconveniencing my life.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi




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