discomfort

There’s a trade-off: We experience a little emotional discomfort by being constantly surveilled, but we are rewarded with the more physical comforts of safety and efficiency.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026

In his first appearance since June, the 24-year-old Briton took France's Terence Atmane to three sets before recurring discomfort appeared to limit his play and he lost 6-3 2-6 6-2.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

He felt some discomfort in his shoulder, the same one he had surgically cleaned up in September, since last Saturday in New York, Stewart said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026

People are showing up in barely-there outfits to business conferences and weddings, prompting shock and discomfort among other attendees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

The Garcías were only legal residents, not citizens, but for the police to mistake Mami for a citizen was a compliment too great to spare a child discomfort.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

As the latest heat wave discomforts Europe, France is arguing about air conditioning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

"That's life. But I was always looking to learn from those discomforts."

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2025

Fans eagerly complain on social media about the creature discomforts of these overstuffed shows: the long lines, the high-priced drinks, the overlapping sets that mean you have to choose between your two favorite bands.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2024

After the interview, Isaac and co-host Ronald Young Jr. talk about the challenges and discomforts of self-promotion.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2024

“The great humiliation of feeling that I am a prisoner is killing me far more than any other discomforts I have to endure,” he wrote—though in fact he felt no humiliation whatsoever.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

He moved from 45 overnight to his eighth Test score of 50 or more, but was discomforted by the short ball.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2023

Though he was discomforted by the bumper barrage, Head fully deserved his sixth Test hundred.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2023

Mr. Kriegel’s raw emotion, it was plain, discomforted them.

From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2022

He was discomforted by the pace of Wood, bowled by the Stokes no-ball on 17, and reprieved on 48 when Burns put down a simple chance at second slip off Robinson's bowling.

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2021

“Of course — everyone knows —” muttered Mr. Diggory, looking highly discomforted.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

That calmed worries that had built on Wall Street that the inflation data could show a discomforting reacceleration.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

The discomforting intimacy of the sequence has stayed with him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023

His modal vocabulary, flecked with pentatonic and other outré accents, could be profoundly ambiguous — sometimes stark, as in “Job,” a ballet in all but name, and sometimes discomforting, as in the otherworldly Sixth.

From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2022

His desperation and menace emerged from act to act in a jarring time-lapse, and his chronically unbalanced chemistry with Leonard overloaded his José with discomforting pathos.

From Washington Post ● May 15, 2022

Something is discomforting about a sun that gives no heat but keeps shining.

From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson