discontent
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The early weeks of the season are crucial for Moyes and Everton to appease discontent supporters who felt last season's late collapse wasted an opportunity for European football.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Youth movements arise regularly in politics, especially in times of partisan discontent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Up to 8.7 million voters -- a majority of them women -- will decide whether Hichilema's economic reforms deserve another term or whether the opposition can turn widespread discontent into a comeback.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
There was serious discontent in the Ottoman camp.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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
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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
We’ve heard that argument over and over again from politicians and other critics of summer vacation and all its parental and educational discontents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
While these discontents were roiling, that's when he really met Meghan, and Meghan really reinforced his sense that he wasn't being, essentially, appreciated enough for his own gifts.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2022
A sly, mordantly funny, at times brutal satire about altruism and its discontents, the movie offers something of an emotional workout.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 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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