malaise
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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
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
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
“She just got back,” the doorman tells Gogol with a wink as he walks past, and his heart leaps, unburdened of its malaise, grateful for her simple act of returning to him.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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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
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
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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