adversity
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Despite adversity, Eckhart was determined in her October 2025 post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Everybody can put a smile on their face when things are going exactly how they want, but who are you when adversity hits?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
McVay speaks often about how adversity during a season is bound to come.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
So often Djokovic has found a way to win in moments of adversity.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
I commended these three men as individuals, not as representatives of the court or of the state or even of their race, but as exemplars of human decency under adversity.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Throughout our conversation, she doesn’t shy away from explaining her life’s adversities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2025
The judge added that Mr Fox had tried to "attach blame and discredit" Mr Blake and Mr Seymour during the litigation, and hold them responsible "for a range of his own life's adversities".
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2024
Information about the genetic predisposition for muscle strength could be used alongside traditional risk assessment in identifying individuals who are at particularly high risk of common diseases and health adversities.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 12, 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
After the movie, we listened to a panel of successful people who had overcome adversities.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 19–24
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