weary
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He's weary, but at least has a story to tell about his day.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
The main inflation barometer used to set U.S. interest rates rose topped 4% in May for the first time in three years — but price relief might be finally on the way for weary consumers.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
Fuel City, a chainlet of seven gas stations in the Dallas area, serves inexpensive street tacos every hour of the day to bar-hoppers, third-shift workers and weary travelers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
Civil rights activist and former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer was weary when she spoke alongside Malcolm X at a church in Harlem in December 1964.
From Salon ● May 28, 2026
I was getting weary of his constant righteousness and the sense I was in some way a great disappointment to him.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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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
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
But Radha is older, wearier and more beaten down than Nola, and she takes a while longer to take ownership of her story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2020
Canada’s longest campaign season in recent history will conclude Monday night, much to the delight of politics-weary citizens and even wearier political journalists.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2015
The wearier she grew, the heavier Constance seemed.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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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
With what had to be the weariest left hand in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed the last of nearly 1,000 bills he approved this year.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2022
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
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
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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
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Richard wearies of making spaniel eyes at the termagant widow and rejects her quite brutally when she decides he'll do.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But soon she wearies of the rabbit also, and does not know in the least what to do with herself.
From Vagaries by Munthe, Axel
Nazih Yahya, a septuagenarian resident with the wearied tone of someone long accustomed to conflict, expected the Israeli military to treat residents in non-Shiite villages differently from areas it counts as bastions of Hezbollah support.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 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
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
She recounted to The Washington Post in 2011 how she had already wearied of the rigors of the road before her first stroke.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024
He read the story of Joseph over and over and never wearied of it.
From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
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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
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
What he got had a wearying familiarity to it.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2024
But getting from conception to reality was a frustrating and wearying campaign.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
Dewey, for example, had spent two wearying and wasted days trying to trace that phantom pair, the Mexicans sworn by Paul Helm to have visited Mr. Clutter on the eve of the murders.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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