malaise
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Even at his own funeral, the officiating rabbi described him as “a symbol of the malaise of our generation.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Our malaise wasn’t helped by the White House’s announced concert lineup at the Great American State Fair, scheduled to run in Washington, D.C., from June 25 to July 10.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 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
"People get what we call malaise - achy in the muscles and the joints, and eventually developing some vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhoea," which he tells the BBC is "true for a lot of illnesses".
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 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
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
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I damned my own twinges and fading malaises.
From A Book of Burlesques by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
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