comfort
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“No one in Wolf Pen leadership, Board leadership, or management leadership is providing shareholders with any comfort on why the Company is an investment worth holding.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Players came back to form a huddle around him and comfort him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Your love and support brings us comfort when we need it most, it really has been extremely overwhelming the amount of support we have been receiving.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
“Pulled your late-night comfort picks,” it explained, “the usual craving fix when you order after dark.”
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
People to comfort me or reassure me or just distract me.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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There’s a trade-off: We experience a little emotional discomfort by being constantly surveilled, but we are rewarded with the more physical comforts of safety and efficiency.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026
The basic creature comforts she had taken for granted in New York, where she lived before departing to teach dance in Havana in 1970, were hard to come by after years of Soviet subsidies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Sometimes, I feel most gay when I’m strolling outside feeling the breeze against my skin, like I’m experiencing the joy in a way that only I can, balanced with my own unique burdens and comforts.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
But contact is growing rapidly today, even if outsiders are barred from entering Indigenous territory, with members curious about the wider world -- and the modern comforts it can offer.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
Ironically, her logical, if demeaning, reply is the only one that comforts me.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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Reyna: In the studio, I had a lot of moments where I felt totally alone, but what comforted me was our creative process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Afterwards, Tommy comforted Yasmin, telling her: "I've got you and that's all I care about."
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
I learned to regulate difficult emotions—sadness, anger, fear—much as I had comforted the wounded child alive within me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
The stock is now being comforted by the 50 day SMA, and it recently successfully retested a double bottom breakout pivot of $88.56 taken out on March 2.
From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026
Every time she did this, she was comforted by how Pearl smelled exactly the same.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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There was a comforting nostalgia in watching her surrounded by tchotchkes, radiating the loose, warm confidence that made “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” such a phenomenon in the 1990s.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
I have another patient who spends time teaching her adult granddaughter all of her homespun recipes, and comforting her when she has disputes with her parents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
“For as long as I can remember, Hal has been a steady, comforting presence on our television screens,” Holly Robinson Peete wrote in her Instagram tribute Thursday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
Why one sound should seem so unbearable, yet the other almost comforting, is difficult to fully articulate or understand - but this is how he experiences life through his autism.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
It wasn't just her ivory-white breastplate or silvery kirtle—she glowed softly from within, radiating a warm, comforting light that elevated her physical perfection to something on a higher plane.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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