discontent

It’s been a summer of discontent for the momentum trade, which has mostly been hot artificial-intelligence-themed stocks that investors chased higher and could not get enough of, until they did.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

Just below the surface, however, the soccer world was seething with discontent.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026

Her government’s handling of a devastating earthquake in June has added to the discontent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

The discontent among India's youth and the courage to voice it on the streets spread to other parts of the country.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

After the first burst of energy, the moving in of the machines, the digging of tunnels and rooms—after that was done, a feeling of discontent settled upon us like some creeping disease.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

Always at the heart of these discontents was the battery—or batteries, because there has been a succession of them, an alchemist’s closet of energy-storing potions in weirdly shaped bottles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

Modern Library’s editorial board ranked “Brave New World,” the 1932 novel about the discontents of a technologically-advanced future society, as the fifth most important novel of the 20th century.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2023

There was a lot of roiling discontents in Harry.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2022

A sly, mordantly funny, at times brutal satire about altruism and its discontents, the movie offers something of an emotional workout.

From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2022

But men must work on, and Wang Lung worked as he had before, although the lengthening warm days and the sunshine and sudden rains filled everyone with longings and discontents.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck