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dissatisfaction

[dis-sat-is-fak-shuhn, dis-sat-] / ˌdɪs sæt ɪsˈfæk ʃən, dɪsˌsæt- /


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“He faced dissatisfaction with the actions of his father on the part of several major figures, as well as unrest in several areas brought into the Mercian fold by Offa.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

Makary had faced growing dissatisfaction over how he managed the nation’s drug and vaccine approval process.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

Customer-service operations still rely heavily on underpaid and poorly trained humans, leading to general dissatisfaction across all service metrics, including wait times and repeat calls, with consumers increasingly resorting to equally unsatisfactory self-service alternatives.

From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026

Frank believes that lavish spending by the wealthy is distorting both the economy and society-at-large, affecting everyone up and down the income ladder — and contributing to this ongoing sense of dissatisfaction and frustration.

From Salon • May 7, 2026

For Ulbricht, the problem with the city's open border had nothing to do with spies: It was with the dissatisfaction of his own people, the seventeen million citizens of the German Democratic Republic, or GDR.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau




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