weary
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Dogs snored next to their owners, who were glued to their phones, screens lighting up weary faces.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
“Investors may be weary of CoreWeave trying to boost its performance through financial derivatives at a time their core AI cloud business is seeing increased competition,” D.A.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
He's weary, but at least has a story to tell about his day.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Singing from the perspective of a California resident, he tells the weary travelers not to bother, that you’ll never get anywhere out west unless you have some money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
I would watch him, ceaselessly moving among his hundreds of charges, counseling, encouraging, finding a simpler job for the weary, a harder one for the restless.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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
And the seemingly endless restrictions leave more ordinary Chinese people wearier by the day.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2022
Officials across the U.S. are again weighing how and whether to impose mask mandates as COVID-19 infections soar and the American public grows ever wearier of pandemic-related restrictions.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 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
Her weary body and wearier mind, which had seemed, in her exhaustion, to be drifting away from each other like untethered boats, made some peace with the tides.
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
Though Lajovic’s shirt was soaked through with sweat early on, Paire was the one who looked the weariest, hunching forward and resting a hand on each knee as he settled in slowly to return serves.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2021
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
A 100-year-old scarlet oak has some privileges when it suddenly wearies.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despite the technical difficulty of writing almost entirely in dialogue, Compton-Burnett rarely wearies or falters.
From Time Magazine Archive
He wearies me with his constant talk about the beauties of nature.
From One Maid's Mischief by George Manville Fenn
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
My eyes have felt similarly as of late, wearied and underlined by dark circles after all their hours spent desperately seeking something exquisite.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025
There’s even the odd love song, in which Williams’ grizzled voice shades in the heartbreak with wearied affection.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024
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
"I felt tired and wearied by the heat,” he explained later, "so nothing was done about it then.”
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
For 35 years, Mr. Self has continued in a similar vein, dazzling and sometimes wearying his readers with his madcap plots and lexical pyrotechnics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
It made parenting less wearying when I could flick through my kids’ toy catalogs, searching for the toys I wanted.
From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2024
In the fall of 1982, after two wearying years of quarantines that ultimately extended through six counties and some 3,000 square miles, California declared victory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024
What he got had a wearying familiarity to it.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2024
At the end of Van Ness, after several foot- wearying miles, we came to a warehouse.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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