consolation

Adjusted for inflation, truckers aren’t yet filling up at 2022 levels, but that is small consolation: Diesel prices have soared 56% since the war began and $2.14 a gallon from a year ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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

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

Goals from Ron Flowers, Bobby Charlton and Jimmy Greaves put England into an unassailable 3-0 lead, with a late consolation from Argentina.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

My one consolation was that I knew these kids.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 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