inconvenient
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Inconvenient and damaging as the outages were, my family managed to find warmth in the cold.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025
King won the RBC Taylor prize for non-fiction for his book The Inconvenient Indian, in 2014, and the Stephen Leacock memorial medal for humour for his work Indians on Vacation, in 2020.
From BBC • Nov. 25, 2025
Dubbing it “An Inconvenient Truth” in a seeming nod to Vice President Al Gore’s classic 2006 documentary about climate change, Crusius said that “water sheds around the country, especially in agricultural areas, are being depleted.”
From Salon • Dec. 2, 2024
It turns out I was watching “An Inconvenient Truth” with Al Gore.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2024
Inconvenient as these streets seem for the purpose, our dark ancestors, of peaceable memory, found no detriment, during the infant state of population, in keeping them there.
From An History of Birmingham (1783) by Hutton, William
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