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[weer-ee] / ˈwɪər i /




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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

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

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

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

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

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

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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