discontent

Democrats lead polls in the final stretch before the midterms; riots in France reflect enormous economic and political discontent; and DOJ lawyers spar with judge over Trump’s plans for public golf course in D.C.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026

The plan comes as Anthropic’s plans for a major initial public offering collide with public discontent around AI.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

On Saturday the protests spread to trade unions and members of the yellow-vest protest movement, becoming a locus of broader discontent over the state of France’s public services.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Investor optimism in OpenAI has been dampened, writes the FT, citing a "$20bn cut to annualised revenues" as the source of discontent.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The self-confident fifteen-year-old paid no heed to their discontent and discourteously stormed out.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

Warehouse labor barks its discontents in “Foul” by the New Orleans post-punk band Special Interest.

From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2022

There was a lot of roiling discontents in Harry.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 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