distress
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Distress is high in FHA mortgages, where a lot of first-time buyers and lower-income Americans get their home financing.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
Distress ensues when these savior suitors, who are bound for a yearlong voyage, fail to show up at the appointed hour to bid the ladies farewell.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025
The Enabling Act was known at the time as “The Act for the Removal of the Distress of the People and the Reich.”
From Salon • Feb. 16, 2025
Distress should not automatically be seen as a sign of mental ill-health, he continues.
From BBC • Jan. 6, 2025
Elizabeth Drinker heard more stories of friends who had died, and lamented: “Desolution, Cruelty and Distress have of late resounded in our ears from many quarters.”
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
Vocabulary lists containing distress
Don't Distress: Words With Irregular Opposites
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100 SAT Words Beginning with "D"
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"A Modest Proposal," Vocabulary from the satire
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