travail
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Physical travail being an inexhaustible source of black comedy and a recurring metaphor for the human condition in Beckett’s writing, the depiction of mortal decline is on point.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2024
Mulaney's second personal travail – which he does not address at all – was his highly publicized divorce from Anna-Marie Tendler and subsequent relationship with Olivia Munn with whom he had a child.
From Salon • May 3, 2023
Il pratique la natation et est végétarien – c’est la seule cause qu’il intègre dans son travail.
From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2023
And I awoke, and I knew that my brother was in travail.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2019
Here’s the beginning of love at the end of our travail.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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