dishearten
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Many young voters say that would dishearten them.
From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026
I began to wonder what we were going to find in this wasteland, but I didn’t want to say anything to dishearten Duncan.
From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024
In “On Fire,” Naomi Klein’s purpose is not to dishearten but to awaken us to the growing global movement called the Green New Deal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2023
Each day, 22 people die in want of organs, which should dishearten all Americans.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2023
“Do not be dishearten, young bahss. Today, we will be foun, to be true.”
From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
“It saddens me, it disgusts me and disheartens me,” Alvarez said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2023
"It disgusts me and disheartens me that people in our nation seem incapable of being decent people."
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2022
It allows those who are responsible to remain unaccountable, and it disheartens those who seek to do the right thing.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 2, 2021
And so the familiarity of McBride’s M.O. disheartens.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2019
"That is what disheartens me; good people are so up in the clouds, where one can never get at them."
From Amy Herbert by Elizabeth Sewell
Markle had also remarked early on that she was disheartened that so much coverage of her romance focused on her ethnicity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
"Those students who are currently studying in those areas are feeling very disheartened, they're felling ignored and they're feeling quite disrespected."
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
I am disheartened by the merely contemporary and hence indifferent to every fad.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
The barren sands yielded nothing and the team, disheartened, headed back to their camp.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
I realize I haven’t yet determined how far away I am from her, and am disheartened to find she’s nearly four hours away.
From "Every Day" by David Levithan
What was really disheartening was the fact that day in and day out, they weren’t on the battlefield.
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2026
"It is disheartening to see news channels," said Sukhjeet Narula, 28, a software professional.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
“That’s really kind of disheartening — that we’ve tried our best to mitigate fires ... yet fires are destroying more homes,” said Amanda Carlson, a research scientist with the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
After decades of looking forward to the freedom of a less stressful lifestyle, it is disheartening to be faced with difficult choices when income and savings fall short.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
At the southern end of the site, however, the men made a disheartening discovery.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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