misery
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These faults, coupled with a lack of consistency in playing partners, is compounding the misery.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
“We see the same sorts of problems and concerns and misery that we’ve been seeing for the last 15 months,” said Welch, the Children’s Rights attorney.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Ms. Aviv relates the story of what happened and the cascade of sorrow, misery and estrangement that followed in a manner that, in another context, has been called the “gentle application of overwhelming force.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Exacerbating the misery will be the lack of cooling temperatures overnight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
“I thought, ‘Thank God there’s a place to put all this enthusiastic misery.’
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
No wonder mud became “shorthand for the miseries of poverty,” Ms. Ziegelman writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
The manuscript that shared her story with the world quoted her as promising to “hear all their cries ... and remedy all their miseries, sorrows, and pains.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025
It’s possible artificial intelligence won’t usher us into obsolescence before it joins us in tuning out the miseries inherent to existing.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2025
“You cannot blame British newspapers for the miseries heaped on the Prince and Princess of Wales,” columnist Hugo Rifkind wrote in The Times of London.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2024
Gert Sibande eloquently told the court of the miseries of African farmworkers.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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