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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

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

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

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

He spoke in the old-fashioned talk, and said with a full voice: “Sir, grant mercy of your great travail that ye have had this day for me and for my Queen.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White




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