consolation
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One possible consolation for people who didn’t get superlow mortgage rates: the opportunity to invest in higher-yielding mortgage bonds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
U.S. natural gas futures settled lower with little consolation from the smallest inventory build of the season to date.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
While her second appearance in September's Solheim Cup match against Europe now seems assured, for the 25-year-old it will come as scant consolation.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
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
Joyce was nearby, and that was a consolation.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Nothing like the durable consolations of late-life romance, but headier, more exciting and, in the worst cases, far more damaging.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 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
But what these consolations must entail has often been a fraught debate.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2025
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
Without the support of old certainties and consolations, almost mechanically, he assumes the procedures and doctrines of the classroom.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
Vocabulary lists containing consolation
Grade 9, List 4
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