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travail

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


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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

Nobody thinks they’re celebrating the success of the Normandy invasion, but these are still truly giddy occasions amid the usual annals of human travail.

From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2019

And I really do not think that America, adolescent and cocksure, a stranger to suffering and travail, an enemy of passion and sacrifice, is ready to probe into its most fundamental beliefs.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright




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