discontent
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"You're playing with fire because if this move ends up adding to the anger and the discontent among so many there, then you have a very big problem on your hands."
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Videos of rats scuttling through corridors in other lycées soon hit social media, providing striking symbols of the discontent.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
The announcement fuelled reports of discontent within the presidential guard, a unit seen as loyal to the former president.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
The executives have different relationships with different members of the administration and they made their discontent known.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Just imagine what would happen if all eight of us were to feel sorry for ourselves or walk around with the discontent clearly visible on our faces.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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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
“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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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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