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malaise

[ma-layz, -muh-, ma-lez] / mæˈleɪz, -mə-, maˈlɛz /


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A good example is South Africa’s economic capital of Johannesburg, where the signs of malaise are particularly acute.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

Beyond this corner of the economy, the overarching malaise in the labor market is expected to persist into 2027.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

But is Fernandes a reason for, or a symptom of, United's malaise?

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

He noted that Morrissey’s malaise mirrors the sentiment of many ranchera songs, also citing that his effeminate onstage persona is a perfect subversion of Mexican machismo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Just one shrill blow and you will see your animal shudder with malaise and repair at top speed to the safest, furthest part of its territory.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

For these two analysts, the key to overcoming the malaises of social alienation have nothing whatsoever to do with catching up, getting even with, or hating one’s enemies, adversaries, abusers, oppressors, and so on.

From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2024

Rather, the key to overcoming the malaises of alienation is about changing the social conditions or epidemiology of this alienation and moving societies beyond common indignities, gross inequities, and identity politics.

From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2024

But despite her placidity, Poplavskaya has leapfrogged to prominence in recent years, profiting from the malaises or caprices of others.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2011

Since then theelin has been used to treat hemophilia, periodic migraine, menstrual disorders, infantilism, frigidity, delayed puberty, physical and psychic malaises associated with the menopause.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rarely, of course, did he draw the attention of the medical officers to his ever-fluctuating assortment of aches, pains, signs, symptoms, malaises, and malfunctions.

From Cum Grano Salis by Randall Garrett


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