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travail

[truh-veyl, trav-eyl] / trəˈveɪl, ˈtræv eɪl /


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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

Le mois dernier, l’astronaute français Thomas Pesquet l’a contacté par email pour lui dire son admiration de son travail et lui proposer d’emporter une de ses oeuvres sur la Lune.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2023

Yet I was confident I should ease his travail; and I prayed for him every day till we passed over into the camp prison.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2019

And looking back it seemed to Carolina as if the children had been an explosion of no more than a moment’s duration, instead of a twenty-five-year travail.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols




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