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malaise

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


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Chipotle shares, meanwhile, have fallen 11.7% over that period, amid a bigger fast-casual slump and malaise over pricier “slop bowls” that have become a staple in that segment of the restaurant industry.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

He noted that Morrissey’s malaise mirrors the sentiment of many ranchera songs, also citing that his effeminate onstage persona is a perfect subversion of Mexican machismo.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

No elected leader could be indifferent to such malaise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

De Zerbi, though, defended their summer window despite their current malaise.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Her soliloquies mawkish, her sentiments maudlin, malaise dripped like a fever from her pores.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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

I damned my own twinges and fading malaises.

From A Book of Burlesques by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken


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