consolation

Still, Wilson’s seat on the Supreme Court was a consolation prize.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

But they gave themselves a boost with a comfortable win - running in seven tries and scoring 34 unanswered points until two late consolation scores for Cook Islands.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

The only consolation for Sirianni might be that it wasn’t even the most astonishing ending on Sunday afternoon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

“I’m more in the business of winning hockey games. I don’t think there’s any consolation in a 2-1 loss,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Defeated by those practices of consolation, José Arcadio Buendía then decided to build the memory machine that he had desired once in order to remember the marvelous inventions of the gypsies.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Nothing like the durable consolations of late-life romance, but headier, more exciting and, in the worst cases, far more damaging.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

In her second book, Hekker noted some consolations for first wives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Let's give the biblical authors credit for taking the sublimity of our loss straight up instead of chasing false consolations.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2024

Scotland rallied and scored some consolations, not that it mattered.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2023

“Too awful,” she kept repeating, and all Bernard’s consolations were in vain.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley