malaise
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It advocated for greater freedoms and rule of law even as those notions fell increasingly out of favor with a populace willing to embrace a strongman ruler to end the post-Soviet economic malaise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
With many Americans already feeling pinched after postpandemic inflation drove up the prices of goods and services, that could be a recipe for even greater economic malaise.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
The food-and-beverage industry has been cranking out new products to cut through consumer malaise and compete with retailers’ store-brand products, which are cheaper but at times just as innovative.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 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
We inspected it several times a day, vigilant for signs of under- or overwatering, too much or too little sun, spider mites, drafts, chlorosis, general malaise.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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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
Since then theelin has been used to treat hemophilia, periodic migraine, menstrual disorders, infantilism, frigidity, delayed puberty, physical and psychic malaises associated with the menopause.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I damned my own twinges and fading malaises.
From A Book of Burlesques by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
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