inconvenience
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While the inconvenience and brutality has certainly kept us angry and alert, there’s little proof it has made us safer.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
As the saying goes, the cost of community is inconvenience.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
MAG said in a statement: "We would like to reassure customers that Manchester Airport Group takes the security of customer information extremely seriously and we apologise for any inconvenience or concern caused."
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
You have to realize: Being arrested isn’t just about the inconvenience of being incarcerated — it’s that now you’re in the system.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Owen had been a little kid back then, so it hadn’t been much more than an inconvenience to him.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
The inconveniences of Slack and Zoom are fixable problems, the LSE researchers argue, which corporate America could work to address.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Small inconveniences you overlook on vacation can become major issues when they are part of your daily life.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 29, 2025
"Although, yes, there are inconveniences, the majority of the population is ready for this," he insisted.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2025
"In this study, we're talking about daily stressors, the minor inconveniences that occur throughout the day, but there's also chronic stress where people are continually impacted by stressors again and again," Witzel said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2025
“It appears to me one of those questions which present great inconveniences whichever way it is decided,” he wrote his new son-in-law.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
However, some ways of being inconvenienced are more draining than others.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 19, 2026
But the crowds and snarled traffic have inconvenienced some including Eric Stein, a Park City resident, who said he can’t wait for the festival to leave town.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026
My wiring is mostly worried about being inconvenienced, or embarrassing myself in some way where I do something to screw something up or hurt someone or something.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2025
The 800-year-old church has no toilet, but Mr Robinson did not want to see the team inconvenienced.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2024
Since I’ve spent most of my time in 13 disoriented, worried, angry, being remade, or hospitalized, I can’t say Gale’s absences have inconvenienced me.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
Chatfield asked the Los Angeles Times in 1997 in response to criticism from community members and some local officials who pegged his nonprofit as inconveniencing residents by helping homeless people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
She later apologized to her security detail, secretaries and driver for inconveniencing them by starting at such an early hour.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
With no workers left, heaps of trash have been overflowing from public bins and dump yards on to the streets, inconveniencing residents.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2025
In their self-conception, they would be entitled to white-glove service from the federal government in the wake of this massively inconveniencing event.
From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2023
But they no longer had it in them to quietly take the blame and apologize for inconveniencing my life.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
Vocabulary lists containing inconvenience
The Giver
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 26–31
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The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
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