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contentment

[kuhn-tent-muhnt] / kənˈtɛnt mənt /


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Ann Patchett is interested in writing about contentment.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Aleys acknowledges the contentment of the Beguines, understanding that their communal labors knit their “hopes, their labor, even their disagreements” as “strands in a single weave.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

We chase happiness when what we should be seeking is contentment.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 21, 2026

There is a sense of being "overwhelmed with the emotion" in contrast to other forms of happiness, such as comfort or contentment.

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2026

The contentment of the does spread to everyone else, until one evening Hazel remarked that he felt a perfect fraud as Chief Rabbit, for there were no problems and hardly a dispute to be settled.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams




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