miseries

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No wonder mud became “shorthand for the miseries of poverty,” Ms. Ziegelman writes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

Perhaps most painful among the nurses’ many miseries is their isolation: the secrets they keep in hopes of sparing their loved ones an iota of extra suffering.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2025

That unfamiliarity also means these men have no idea what’s in store for them, or what actions will trigger a Housewife’s past miseries.

From Salon • May 5, 2025

“You cannot blame British newspapers for the miseries heaped on the Prince and Princess of Wales,” columnist Hugo Rifkind wrote in The Times of London.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 26, 2024

We would exchange remedies and try to outdo each other in the recital of our physical miseries; gently we would complain, our voices soft and minor key and mournful as pigeons in the eaves troughs.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood