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Though the president spoke in front of foreign leaders and dignitaries, the real audience was the American public, which has grown weary of the conflict.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

“We’ve talked to everyone we can,” Al-Drimly said, his voice weary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

“I’m just a weary pilgrim trying to find what feels like home,” she sings.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

Dogs snored next to their owners, who were glued to their phones, screens lighting up weary faces.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

She’s obviously younger, but the bags under her wet, weary eyes make her look older than she is now.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

As time passes, you see two smiling, handsome young men change, gradually appearing wearier as war strips away their innocence.

From BBC ● May 25, 2023

Golovkin finally upped his work rate and made progress against a wearier Canelo in the late rounds, but it wasn’t enough.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2022

The motel I had booked looked wearier than ecstatic reviews of vintage Americana had led me to believe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2021

“I don’t care,” Miranda says in a wearier tone, about the current president — who’s been critical of the show on Twitter before — showing up to see his musical or not.

From Washington Post ● May 31, 2018

He ought to have been wearier now, but he was not.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

That it happens this way every year, offering an annual day of hope to even the weariest baseball cities, remains somehow powerful.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2023

The sun has barely set on a roaring summer concert season and a busy fall slate ensures there will be no rest for even the weariest local music fans.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2022

The under-fire Steve Bruce must have met news of Ronaldo’s return with the weariest of sighs.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 11, 2021

Cruise seems weariest of all, flogging outdated merchandise he can’t even pretend to believe in.

From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2017

Do I take both before dinner, which is usually about 7:30, leaving an unbroken two-and-a-half-hour stretch when I’m weariest, between 8:30 and 11:00?

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

But numerous media reports suggest that he has been marginalised as Trump wearies of being controlled and seeks to cut loose.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 30, 2018

“Joy wearies me, and I hate happiness when I catch a glimpse of it in a human expression,” he told Newsweek in 1963.

From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2017

It wearies me to be thought of as timid, when I've had to do things that were so risky as to be almost crazy.

From Time Magazine Archive

A 100-year-old scarlet oak has some privileges when it suddenly wearies.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have an almost incessant influx of visitors, which sometimes wearies me; but then I love to see them, and I enjoy the occasional quiet hour all the more.

From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Edward B. Hall

That night, Frometa listened to critics like Trujillo slam her anew while wearing a wearied smile.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026

This was not something you could have accused her of over the summer, and was perhaps a sign of a body and mind wearied by nine months on the road.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2025

The problem with cramming for the Oscars, as I do every year to varying degrees of success, is that it renders one cinematically wearied.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2024

He’s a sensitive hero with vigor and swagger, a traveler in love with the universe with all its faults and perils instead of wearied by its greed and destructiveness.

From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2023

She reported that she “fully understood the practical difficulties most women had to contend with...the chaotic conditions into which everything fell without her constant supervision, and the wearied, anxious look of the majority of women.”

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

At first it was staggering, the boom, boom, boom, watching both players crack heavy serve after heavy serve, but it started to become a little wearying, like watching an extended game of Whac-A-Mole.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

The cutesy performance shtick around a shoestring variety show — imagine Pee-wee’s Playhouse without the bewitching oddity — grows wearying.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025

That’s not to say that “Our Little Secret” isn’t enjoyable all on its own, only that it’s become wearying to watch Lohan confined to the limits of a holiday movie made for a streamer.

From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2024

Written by Ruby Caster and directed by Emma Westenberg, “Bleeding Love” drifts and lurches for a wearying 102 minutes.

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2024

All my motions focalized on pretending to be that guileless schoolgirl who had nothing more wearying to think about than mid-term exams.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou