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discontent

[dis-kuhn-tent] / ˌdɪs kənˈtɛnt /


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But the law has not stopped the spiralling prices and popular discontent.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

And perhaps the end of Craig Bellamy's summer of discontent.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

He also became a sounding board for Goldman partners and other executives who at times sought to express concern or discontent with the firm’s direction—including the now-aborted plans to become a consumer lender.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Serbia's president has resigned after more than a year of student-led protests and growing public discontent over allegations of government corruption.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

The deep rumbling of discontent in our cities is indicative of the fact that the plant of freedom has grown only a bud and not yet a flower....

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

Always at the heart of these discontents was the battery—or batteries, because there has been a succession of them, an alchemist’s closet of energy-storing potions in weirdly shaped bottles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

There was a lot of roiling discontents in Harry.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2022

‘Happiness’ Black comedies don’t come much blacker than Todd Solondz’s unrated, controversial 1998 tale of suburbia and its discontents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2022

“Parallel Mothers” would make a fine double feature with another recent film about motherhood and its discontents: “The Lost Daughter.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2022

But men must work on, and Wang Lung worked as he had before, although the lengthening warm days and the sunshine and sudden rains filled everyone with longings and discontents.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck




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