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

He has already endured five decades of political travail and far worse from life.

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2020

And I awoke, and I knew that my brother was in travail.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2019

Never again will her life be free of travail and disappointment in her three blind mice.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver