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discomfort

[dis-kuhm-fert] / dɪsˈkʌm fərt /




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There’s a misalignment here, and it’s likely due to some discomfort.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

Smith’s recent recovery progress, since shutting down baseball activities and receiving an injection to address the discomfort and inflammation, has been encouraging enough for the team to feel confident in his return.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

For others, the low-frequency sound can cause physical discomfort or illness and may also feel like a vibration moving through the body.

From Science Daily Jul. 19, 2026

Serbian Olympic long jumper Ivana Spanovic, who also gave advice to the EBU said certain cameras not only cause discomfort during events but can have "serious long-term effects on athlete's mental health."

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

On first seeing the broken ride, I'd assumed it was designed to pause at frequent intervals, allowing those onboard to feel the full effect of their discomfort.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

In India, where marriage and motherhood are regarded as the ultimate goal and a sacred duty for most women, a play talking about the discomforts of a mother comes as a refreshing change.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

As the latest heat wave discomforts Europe, France is arguing about air conditioning.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 29, 2026

After the interview, Isaac and co-host Ronald Young Jr. talk about the challenges and discomforts of self-promotion.

From Slate Aug. 25, 2024

There's menopause, with its discomforts and night sweats.

From Salon Dec. 2, 2023

I’m making it sound pretty bad, but none of us minded the discomforts one bit—it was all part of the excitement of being at the Cottages.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro

He was clearly discomforted by the swelling on his foot and had to be stretchered from the field.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2025

Duckett had been discomforted by the short ball and Root caught off a no-ball, yet England refused to temper their aggression.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2023

Mr. Kriegel’s raw emotion, it was plain, discomforted them.

From New York Times Oct. 11, 2022

There were moments when Mitchell played rash drives at James Anderson and was briefly discomforted by short balls from Stokes, while Blundell looked skittish when leg-spinner Matt Parkinson came into the attack.

From BBC Jun. 3, 2022

“Of course — everyone knows —” muttered Mr. Diggory, looking highly discomforted.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

That calmed worries that had built on Wall Street that the inflation data could show a discomforting reacceleration.

From Seattle Times Feb. 29, 2024

The discomforting intimacy of the sequence has stayed with him.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 20, 2023

The discomforting reality is that, while Altman and his ilk have been predicting an exponential acceleration of productivity, we have been experiencing a deceleration.

From Salon Mar. 19, 2023

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 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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