travail

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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

“Woman Ironing,” she said, “is Picasso’s quintessential image of travail and fatigue.”

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2023

Hurston was a “keen strategist of racial deference,” and her views on America’s racial travail clashed with those of another project writer and seminal Black author, Richard Wright.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2021

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