discontent
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The high cost of living is a big factor for people's discontent, as residents feel supermarket and petrol prices are impossibly high for working families.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
The 13% slide, driven by discontent with quarterly results in which the Google Services unit missed analyst expectations, weighed on major U.S. stock indexes and fueled a drop in the Nasdaq composite.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Countries across Europe are grappling with a wave of rising discontent over the cost of living, with weeks of protests breaking out across France this month.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
Democrats lead polls in the final stretch before the midterms; riots in France reflect enormous economic and political discontent; and DOJ lawyers spar with judge over Trump’s plans for public golf course in D.C.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026
But whether she did or not, here, evidently, was the rabbit who had told Holly and his companions about the troubles of Efrafa and the discontent of the does.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Always at the heart of these discontents was the battery—or batteries, because there has been a succession of them, an alchemist’s closet of energy-storing potions in weirdly shaped bottles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
While these discontents were roiling, that's when he really met Meghan, and Meghan really reinforced his sense that he wasn't being, essentially, appreciated enough for his own gifts.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2022
‘Fight Club’ We’re not gonna talk about it, except to say that Brad Pitt and Edward Norton star in David Fincher’s divisive 1999 adaptation of the gritty Chuck Palahniuk novel about civilization and its discontents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2022
A sly, mordantly funny, at times brutal satire about altruism and its discontents, the movie offers something of an emotional workout.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
But men must work on, and Wang Lung worked as he had before, although the lengthening warm days and the sunshine and sudden rains filled everyone with longings and discontents.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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