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malaise

[ma-layz, -muh-, ma-lez] / mæˈleɪz, -mə-, maˈlɛz /


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The strong August employment report had raised hopes that the labor market was on the upswing after two years of malaise.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026

De Zerbi, though, defended their summer window despite their current malaise.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Melbourne start — was the reason for his malaise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

With many Americans already feeling pinched after postpandemic inflation drove up the prices of goods and services, that could be a recipe for even greater economic malaise.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

We inspected it several times a day, vigilant for signs of under- or overwatering, too much or too little sun, spider mites, drafts, chlorosis, general malaise.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

Rather, the key to overcoming the malaises of alienation is about changing the social conditions or epidemiology of this alienation and moving societies beyond common indignities, gross inequities, and identity politics.

From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2024

For these two analysts, the key to overcoming the malaises of social alienation have nothing whatsoever to do with catching up, getting even with, or hating one’s enemies, adversaries, abusers, oppressors, and so on.

From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2024

But despite her placidity, Poplavskaya has leapfrogged to prominence in recent years, profiting from the malaises or caprices of others.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2011

When Prime Minister Harold Wilson and the Social ists took power late in 1964, the pound was in one of its deeper malaises.

From Time Magazine Archive

I damned my own twinges and fading malaises.

From A Book of Burlesques by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken




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