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Another woman began to console her, and a third woman raised her voice in anger.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Carlos had a “heart of gold” and never missed the chance to console a friend or go out of his way to help, his mom said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
The Japanese giant helped popularise console discs in the 1990s after launching its first PlayStation.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
The prevailing weirdness over physical controls is no doubt responsible for the dinky switch console in the center stack, with audio, climate controls and emergency flasher crowded together.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
I logged off, but before I’d even powered down my console, a message buzzed on my phone.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
“Kids don’t know how to play old-school games because they’re on their consoles playing.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
GTA 6, due to be released on PlayStation 5 and Xbox consoles in November, is still expected to be the biggest video game launch of the decade.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
New consoles used to come out every five years – so where's the PlayStation 6?
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
The centre's shops sell tech equipment of all sorts, from computer parts to gadgets and games consoles.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
In Paris, Theo consoles himself with a new girlfriend, someone he'd met a few months earlier, “S.”
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
“It has been subject to increasingly aggressive change. When I was younger, it was sad for me to witness. I was consoled because Vlore was not the center, but then they started attacking here too.”
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Some have apologized for the affront and consoled customers, helping them move through the stages of grief to acceptance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
She was consoled by campmates including ex-Gogglebox star Scarlett Moffatt.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
Lang appeared to be in agony and he was consoled by Liverpool's Alisson Becker and Virgil van Dijk as he was attended to by medical staff.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026
He had the lugubrious face of one who simply refuses to be consoled.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Days after Kirk’s death, Marx posted photos of himself consoling Kirk’s widow, Erika; he announced he was considering a run for governor at a memorial service for Kirk.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
“I can tell you there is no consoling that family at this point,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
"As far as I remember the defendant was upset and a lot of people were giving him hugs and consoling him."
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
I’m a big Fantasy Football person, so Monday morning is normally consoling myself with how badly Sunday has gone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026
She got to be so sincere in the deception that she ended up by consoling herself with her own lies.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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