discontent
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But maybe, just maybe, Marvel fans are feeling a nagging sense of discontent, too.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
"I am taking note of the anger expressed by the employees of the Eiffel Tower, and I want to tell them that their discontent is legitimate," he wrote on X.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Several protesters blamed Merz's government for failing to address discontent.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
Sometimes the seeds of discontent get planted early, only to sprout with the turn of the seasons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
His eyes rested in puffy little hammocks of flesh and his mouth drooped with discontent.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
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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
There was a lot of roiling discontents in Harry.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2022
‘Happiness’ Black comedies don’t come much blacker than Todd Solondz’s unrated, controversial 1998 tale of suburbia and its discontents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2022
“Parallel Mothers” would make a fine double feature with another recent film about motherhood and its discontents: “The Lost Daughter.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 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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Power Prefix: dis-
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Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Of Mice and Men
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