consolation

England is playing in the consolation final for the second time in three World Cups; it lost to Belgium 2-1 in 2018.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

In the meantime, Karim says, the consolation prize is simply to enjoy the party.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

Cheaper chicken is little consolation to David Manhire, who owns Summer Daze Catering in Basking Ridge, N.J., about an hour outside New York City.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

His converted penalty was then merely a consolation in a 3-1 loss to hosts Russia before he missed a sitter as Egypt suffered a humiliating loss to Saudi Arabia.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

The only consolation was that she was no longer wearing Leanna North’s likeness.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

Earl then bagged yet another Saracens score in between Sale consolations from O'Flaherty and Opoku-Fordjour to cap a historic afternoon for Mark McCall's men.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026

Throughout the book she displays the fundamental bewilderment of the secular postmodernist contending with huge life events while cut off from the consolations of any one tradition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

Let's give the biblical authors credit for taking the sublimity of our loss straight up instead of chasing false consolations.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2024

For a while there is the tedium of waiting, but also the consolations of camaraderie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2022

“Too awful,” she kept repeating, and all Bernard’s consolations were in vain.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley