miserable
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"It's had a miserable effect on my family and finances."
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
After 72 particularly miserable hours for his football program, Lincoln Riley took his place behind a lectern Tuesday and tried to assure that things at USC weren’t as bad as they looked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
Their pitching is miserable, their defense is no better and they run the bases like they ate too much Tex-Mex on their way to work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
In the run-up to her nuptials, Clark presented her own “wife school” series that made marriage sound so miserable that a reasonable viewer’s only conclusion was to avoid being a wife altogether.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
I was thirteen years old when Dr. Kane took care of me and took me out of the miserable life.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 1–6
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