discomfort
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In a world of sanitised celebrity profiles, Kim's portrayal of upheaval and discomfort is unusual.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
The Dodgers still don’t know what to reasonably expect from Ohtani, gritting out the postseason despite discomfort in his left knee and right arm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Sympathy is, by its nature, separate from another’s discomfort, thoughts and prayers offered from a distance.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
I sense that part of your discomfort with cutting her off is that this is a new friend, and I can empathize.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Olanna sensed Odenigbo’s discomfort before he spoke in a voice that was too loud.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
As the latest heat wave discomforts Europe, France is arguing about air conditioning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
After the interview, Isaac and co-host Ronald Young Jr. talk about the challenges and discomforts of self-promotion.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2024
For Mason Kidd, a 22-year-old freelance film producer, those are small discomforts worth bearing to watch history.
From BBC ● May 11, 2024
They demonstrate that resilience is not always about unwavering composure but about challenging the status quo, addressing discomforts with candor, and urging listeners to find strength beyond the lures of capitalism.
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2024
The posture of the body is important, here and now: minor discomforts are instructive.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
He found movement to take the edges of Crawley and Root, then bounced out the discomforted Smith.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025
The news outlet called Lamar "an ambitious and searingly talented poet from Compton working through his - and the world’s - contradictions on the biggest stage, forever discomforted by his crown".
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2024
Mr. Kriegel’s raw emotion, it was plain, discomforted them.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2022
In Japan, sponsors long had been privately discomforted with the widespread public opposition to the Games, but until now, they had been largely silent publicly.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 2021
All the same, the reproof in John Holbrook’s voice left her discomforted.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
That calmed worries that had built on Wall Street that the inflation data could show a discomforting reacceleration.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
The discomforting intimacy of the sequence has stayed with him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
The absence of a human hand — made glaring and discomforting through the tiniest lapses of approximated intuition — can render the listening experience a valueless exchange, the music a bunk currency.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2023
His modal vocabulary, flecked with pentatonic and other outré accents, could be profoundly ambiguous — sometimes stark, as in “Job,” a ballet in all but name, and sometimes discomforting, as in the otherworldly Sixth.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
Something is discomforting about a sun that gives no heat but keeps shining.
From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson
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