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miserable

[miz-er-uh-buhl, miz-ruh-] / ˈmɪz ər ə bəl, ˈmɪz rə- /




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In the spring of 2024, Antonelli sat in for his first F1 test, behind closed doors, at a circuit in Austria in miserable weather.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Unwilling to subject them to another miserable, dangerous winter, she's taking them abroad.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 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

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 explained how Dad had been miserable since he’d lost his job, no matter how many times he claimed, “It’s all good.”

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas


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