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dissatisfaction

[dis-sat-is-fak-shuhn, dis-sat-] / ˌdɪs sæt ɪsˈfæk ʃən, dɪsˌsæt- /


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Accommodation manager Yuta Matsuo told Reuters the hosts were "fully aware of the dissatisfaction and concerns voiced by the athlete delegations".

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

Nicastro also placed cats in unfamiliar environments, hoping to get meows of dissatisfaction.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

"The impact on the American consumer has gone up tremendously," he said, adding that there was growing dissatisfaction in the rural, normally Republican area of Virginia where he lives.

From Barron's Aug. 25, 2026

Even if a trust member’s aesthetic dissatisfaction were a cognizable injury, the trust itself would lack standing.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Richard watched the smile that pulled her mouth up at one end, a sardonic smile that he imagined hid something else, perhaps dissatisfaction.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

But “The Book of Ayn” is rife with dissatisfactions — to its credit — and with self-aware jokes and serious questions about self-awareness.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 14, 2023

These interesting and extremely human but abstract dissatisfactions suffer by dint of the forced comparison to crappy conditions real people really lived with during the pandemic.

From Slate Jun. 23, 2021

Haemin is especially eloquent on life’s smaller dissatisfactions, and how they can sometimes be trickier to deal with than the bigger, more dramatic ones.

From The Guardian Jan. 12, 2019

He added, “Perhaps my basic dissatisfactions are what motivate me.”

From New York Times May 19, 2017

They say, in another place, that there is no ground for the dissatisfactions and difficulties of the weavers: "that they are owing to the delâls, whose aim it is to be employed."

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) by Edmund Burke




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