comfort
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The doctors at the Tijuana clinic said they would keep Chad on both laetrile and chemotherapy, but Truman didn’t take any comfort in that.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026
Iommi has a comfort zone, so he’d originally wanted Butler on the new album, which didn’t work out logistically.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026
But the England head coach can advance into autumn in a position of considerably more comfort.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
Yet investors can take comfort that the “underlying appetite” for artificial intelligence has not changed since the midterms.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
Mutti tried to comfort me all she could.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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This provides enough electricity to charge phones and run lights, fans and even electric razors, small comforts that have become a luxury for families still living in tents and shelters.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026
David Beckham swapped the Galactico comforts of Real Madrid, where he spent four seasons and collected a sole La Liga crown, for a Hollywood welcome at LA Galaxy.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Real surprises are rarer in the land of Too Much TV, although we shouldn’t knock reliable comforts.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
With higher ticket prices and more competition — not only with other touring bands but with the allures of home comforts — audiences need a bigger draw.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
I’ve thought about it long and hard and decided that if he will tolerate me as I am, I’ll decline to return to all familiar comforts in order to stay here.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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I lost my dear wife of 58 years a few months ago, and I have been comforted by biblical teachings about the person after death.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
Faulk met Ali at a dinner and said on the podcast that he is comforted by the memory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
His wife, who was comforted by other members of her family, watched from the public gallery as he answered "guilty" to dozens of charges.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Dozens of police and emergency responders gathered outside the cordoned-off Debsirin Nonthaburi School on Friday, AFP journalists saw, while parents waited to pick up their children and tearful students and staff comforted each other outside.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
“Zafoona,” comforted Khala Nilufer, “you’re making yourself sick. You can’t think like this.”
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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And when I want something comforting, I’ll toss them into pastina with finely diced vegetables for what I think of as “tiny everything soup.”
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
Maya described her as a "ball of fun", while Kenny put on his best acting skills in the aftermath by pretending to be struggling with having the deciding vote, even comforting poor Sharon.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
It’s a potent mixture to be comforting and intriguing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Projects include a 30-episode reality microdrama from Mike Fleiss called “Dateable” and a short film starring Kyra Sedgwick as a comforting AI hologram.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
There was something comforting about the volume, even more so than the copy he had read a hundred times.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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