consolation
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England will also try to deny Australia a consolation bronze, before teams transform the Hydro from a netball court back to a gig venue for the closing ceremony on Sunday night.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
England is playing in the consolation final for the second time in three World Cups; it lost to Belgium 2-1 in 2018.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
Cheaper chicken is little consolation to David Manhire, who owns Summer Daze Catering in Basking Ridge, N.J., about an hour outside New York City.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
It was almost painful watching them; trying everything but delivering nothing, not even a consolation goal that might prove significant.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
If a contestant reached the $8,000 plateau and failed to answer that question correctly, he or she was given a new Cadillac as a consolation prize, worth about $5,000 at that time.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Earl then bagged yet another Saracens score in between Sale consolations from O'Flaherty and Opoku-Fordjour to cap a historic afternoon for Mark McCall's men.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026
In her second book, Hekker noted some consolations for first wives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Let's give the biblical authors credit for taking the sublimity of our loss straight up instead of chasing false consolations.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2024
And memory — what consolations can it offer when we know it doesn’t last?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2023
“Too awful,” she kept repeating, and all Bernard’s consolations were in vain.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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