discouragement
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While ChatGPT occasionally offered discouragement, only the chatbots from Snap and Anthropic reliably refused these requests, according to the researchers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
The moments of discouragement are so heavy in this industry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
I want to address the discouragement and fear that many who care about democracy and peace and human rights are feeling in America and around the world right now.
From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2025
A digital discouragement campaign targeting men aged 18 to 35 in the UK is being pushed out by the Dutch city's council.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2023
Confident that he was clever, resourceful, and bold enough to escape any predicament, he was almost incapable of discouragement.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
If the United Nations were useful for nothing else, it would be imperative to keep it alive … We can have no illusions about the discouragements which lie ahead.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2023
Now his experimentalism and transnationalism aren’t discouragements but invitations to a larger global audience.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
A player who understands the disappointments and discouragements that not just Capitals fans, but a generation of Washington fans carry deep in their hearts.
From Washington Times ● May 6, 2018
This comes on top of other discouragements to growth.
From Economist ● Mar. 1, 2018
Very often this lies in the career of the inventor, who struggled towards the perfection and recognition of his invention against heavy difficulties and discouragements; or it may lie in the interesting processes of manufacture.
From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Robert Cochrane
