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malaise

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


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Was he so concerned with capturing his son’s malaise as Adrian became an adult that he missed details he might’ve seen if one eye weren’t looking through the viewfinder?

From Salon Jul. 24, 2026

The early exit confirmed a malaise that has lingered since Germany lifted the World Cup in 2014.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

Amid a historic surge in chip stocks and a continued malaise in software, the equities market has seemed to totally forget the Mag Seven, Empower’s Chief Investment Strategist Marta Norton told Barron’s this week.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

A fundamental question in recent days was whether the state’s 23.2 million registered voters, who all received mail-in ballots, were waiting to vote or if they would skip the election because of malaise.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 3, 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

When Prime Minister Harold Wilson and the Social ists took power late in 1964, the pound was in one of its deeper malaises.

From Time Magazine Archive

And they will add that Thackeray, another man of genius, had also his malaises of art, was likewise a man with the mortal failings implied in the word.

From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Burton, Richard




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