discomfort
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“It involves physical discomfort if you’re getting it wrong, so they’re learning how to move through that.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Common obstacles include discomfort, limited time, and the physical demands of conventional exercise programs.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
"But equally when you're in pain or it's itching and you've got discomfort, living with it is just as bad."
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
For Fielder, who is equal parts lovably strange and dryly hilarious, offsetting other people’s discomfort can be a sizable task.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
The light in the hall burned his eyes and the odor in the cell made every breath a discomfort.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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As the latest heat wave discomforts Europe, France is arguing about air conditioning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
SuperMouth ULTIM8 SmartBrush System – Toothbrushes have long been one of travel’s little discomforts — often still damp from use, or less than effective when you pack a separate “travel” brush.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2025
After the interview, Isaac and co-host Ronald Young Jr. talk about the challenges and discomforts of self-promotion.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2024
For Mason Kidd, a 22-year-old freelance film producer, those are small discomforts worth bearing to watch history.
From BBC ● May 11, 2024
The floor was made of warped planks lull of splinters, and his sleeping pallet smelled of mildew, but those discomforts were mild compared to what Davos had expected.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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The unapologetically Black person wears their Blackness every day, regardless of who is offended or discomforted by it.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
He was lively with the new ball and again after lunch, when he discomforted Jacks.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2025
It is not a given that Newey would be discomforted by Horner's departure.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2024
Mr. Kriegel’s raw emotion, it was plain, discomforted them.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2022
“Of course — everyone knows —” muttered Mr. Diggory, looking highly discomforted.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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Stark, discomforting amplification diminishes intimacy and the luxurious richness of Bullock’s soprano, which easily fills a room on its own, suggests quiet terror, the lonely state of Nina Simone’s “Images.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2026
That calmed worries that had built on Wall Street that the inflation data could show a discomforting reacceleration.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
His modal vocabulary, flecked with pentatonic and other outré accents, could be profoundly ambiguous — sometimes stark, as in “Job,” a ballet in all but name, and sometimes discomforting, as in the otherworldly Sixth.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
But there are times to make people uncomfortable enough that they stop discomforting others.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2022
But the fact is, once I had sat down to supper at their table, once a number of their neighbours had come calling, a most discomforting set of events began to unfold around me.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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