adversities

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Throughout our conversation, she doesn’t shy away from explaining her life’s adversities.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2025

Individuals who experienced two adulthood adversities had a 24 percent higher chance of depression, while also experiencing a three percent cognitive decline later in life.

From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2024

“This is a story of 45 individuals providing a window through which we can observe how they endured major adversities and built a society where compassion and mercy prevailed.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2024

More women are having children later, and the age-related decline of the body leads to more adversities, complications, and, occasionally, even death during pregnancy and childbirth.

From Slate • Nov. 26, 2023

Along with everyone else, he had received his own bound and illustrated tale of love, adversities overcome, reunion and a wedding.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan