discouraged

Example Sentences

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As a result, they often feel discouraged while their risk remains high.

From Science Daily

“Short-term-oriented capital markets have discouraged companies with a longer term view from going public at all, depriving the economy of innovation and opportunity.”

From Barron's

“They put pressure on people to make them discouraged and hopeless,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal

They reckon it may have stiffened the resolve of the German public and discouraged rebels within the dying Nazi regime.

From MarketWatch

In one post on X, he surprised many by using gender-inclusive language -- discouraged by his father's government which regularly slammed "gender ideology."

From Barron's