disappointment
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John’s and Adelaide’s lives follow a predetermined “road from hope to fantasy to disappointment and despair.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Tom Hanks’ directorial debut, which was released to critical praise but was a box office disappointment, doesn’t hinge on the charming, passable performances of its lead actors.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
The disappointment in September dashed those hopes, for now.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
Some online fans have interpreted her facial expressions as disappointment upon learning her pair was safe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
Some of the women who’d volunteered for her aviation regiments were going to have to face disappointment, because they were going to have to do jobs that kept them on the ground.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
It was Tottenham Hotspur who offered Kane hope after his earlier disappointments, but the future England captain was by no means the pick of the bunch for his age group.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
The resulting brain fog has been blamed for diplomatic mishaps, Olympic disappointments and the recent downfall of the chief executive behind Jim Beam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
You can see a decade of disappointments in a shot of Lozita going slack-faced as her mother reminisces about how nice she and Big Ant looked at their wedding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
England's Jazmin Sawyers was finally able to put previous disappointments at major championships behind her by winning the women's long jump at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
His life, from the moment his mother had abandoned him when he was three, had been a series of disappointments and hardships, but he managed to keep his head above water most of the time.
From "Forged by Fire" by Sharon M. Draper
Vocabulary lists containing disappointment
Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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