comfort
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You care more about comfort and style than conformity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
There’s a quiet comfort in knowing your neighbors, especially in a sprawling, sometimes lonely city like Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
It is the knowledge that everyone there is living what you are merely watching, and that watching, from comfort, is its own small shame.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
For workers, however, long-term plans offer little immediate comfort.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
He sighed and set it down, looking around for another source of comfort.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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There’s a trade-off: We experience a little emotional discomfort by being constantly surveilled, but we are rewarded with the more physical comforts of safety and efficiency.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026
The basic creature comforts she had taken for granted in New York, where she lived before departing to teach dance in Havana in 1970, were hard to come by after years of Soviet subsidies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Sometimes, I feel most gay when I’m strolling outside feeling the breeze against my skin, like I’m experiencing the joy in a way that only I can, balanced with my own unique burdens and comforts.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
But contact is growing rapidly today, even if outsiders are barred from entering Indigenous territory, with members curious about the wider world -- and the modern comforts it can offer.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
Not even food comforts me right now, which is kind of alarming.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
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If you have watched any of these — if they comforted you on your worst days and made good ones better — Burrows had a hand in making your life funnier.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
“To have gay couples come up crying, saying thank you is incredible and it’s what you do it for. The best feeling in the world is to know that we’ve comforted someone.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
He told the BBC he was both overwhelmed and comforted by the massive police presence when he arrived at the centre, San Diego County's second largest mosque, which also houses a primary school.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
The stock is now being comforted by the 50 day SMA, and it recently successfully retested a double bottom breakout pivot of $88.56 taken out on March 2.
From Barron's ● Apr. 14, 2026
The timepiece’s cool weight comforted me, and when the passing streetlamps permitted, I watched the second hand continue its steady revolution around the porcelain dial.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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At a time when market leaders are all about the promise of future AI riches, it’s comforting to own shares in an old-school company that can afford to reward shareholders generously today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
"I think in a community where fair is often the more beautiful, that song is really comforting and I love it a lot."
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
“For as long as I can remember, Hal has been a steady, comforting presence on our television screens,” Holly Robinson Peete wrote in her Instagram tribute Thursday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
Appeals to history often carry the comforting suggestion that the past has only one story to tell.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
Which, given how mad he had made her on multiple occasions, wasn’t particularly comforting.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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