discontent
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Ananas said unless Fedorov returned, the discontent was likely to continue.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
The suit signals growing discontent in the real-estate industry over Mamdani policies aimed at making housing more affordable at a time when rents have surged to record highs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Unfortunately, the headache has spread to Halloween in recent years, making it the looming gate to a season of discontent.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
The debate has been turbocharged by discontent with the reliablility of the existing Caledonian MacBrayne ferry network which serves the Hebrides and the Clyde.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Nevertheless, the Populist movement initially enjoyed remarkable success in the South, fueled by a wave of discontent aroused by the severe agrarian depression of the 1880s and 1890s.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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
I mean the movies that reveal something to us about the highs and lows, the glories and discontents, and above all something ineffable about love itself, transcending just romance.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
But there are other discontents still in Moscow, and politically active.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2023
Like “Last Winter, We Parted,” “My Annihilation” is an examination of selfhood — or of selfhood’s discontents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 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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Power Prefix: dis-
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Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Of Mice and Men
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