miserable
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If everything around us is telling us we are going to feel miserable, that we’re not recovered, we’ll start to believe it.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
“It’s miserable and it’s frustrating, the games they play,” he said.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
Nasty villains with evil plans to make us miserable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
This week could bring Southern California its most sweltering temperatures of the year — a heat wave made all the more miserable, and dangerous, by oppressive muggy conditions and little nighttime relief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The longer Nhamo studied the miserable creature, the more certain she was that he was the only member of his troop on the island.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Vocabulary lists containing miserable
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 1–6
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