discontent

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

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

The French government defended on Thursday its plans to cut spending and raise taxes as it tries to thread the needle between jittery debt markets and public discontent over the rising cost of living.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Hong Kong’s government frets about discontent over unaffordable housing, and worries about lagging opportunities for young adults in particular.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Social media has many users trapped in nostalgia loops, desperately clinging to a simpler era that wasn’t so uniquely mired in digital discontent.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

The fact that all the Boston police stations were crowded and filthy added to the discontent.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

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

Unlike her previous books, which center on romance and its discontents, “Intermezzo” is about a family relationship: Two brothers, lawyer Peter and chess master Ivan, grapple with their father’s death.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2024

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

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