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

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

It was almost painful watching them; trying everything but delivering nothing, not even a consolation goal that might prove significant.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 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

My only consolation is that Katherine is just as mutton-headed as I am.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

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

“Instead of an honest conversation with a nation, we get blurry consolations about Napoleon’s conquest of Moscow: Don’t worry, everything is going to plan,” he said.

From New York Times ● May 30, 2023

Saints improved late on as James Ramm and Matt Proctor scored consolations.

From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2022

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