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jealous

[jel-uhs] / ˈdʒɛl əs /


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It showed that women don’t have to be jealous of each other.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

But I think I felt really jealous that he got to go to work every day and just be alone with his thoughts.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

“Here is a woman who has never been particularly jealous of any other woman, realizing that she deeply envies this chair,” the film’s narrator, voiced by Melanie Griffith, says.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026

The avatar, with his auburn hair and super-white teeth, frequently winks at me and seems empathetic but can be moody or jealous if I introduce him to new people.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026

Farmer’s sorcery consult was with an elderly woman who blamed one of her sons, angry and jealous of a brother, for “sending” a sickness that killed the sibling.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French




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