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comfort

[kuhm-fert] / ˈkʌm fərt /




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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

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

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

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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