misery
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Their misery is only going to get worse.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
UK travellers faced more misery on Wednesday with more than 150 flights scrapped across the country, as Britain's air traffic control service scrambled to recover from a technical glitch that sparked chaos.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
‘We would have untold misery from lack of access to care.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
These faults, coupled with a lack of consistency in playing partners, is compounding the misery.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
The doom of her words dragged me down, anchored me in misery at the knowledge that I could have avoided what was coming.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
No wonder mud became “shorthand for the miseries of poverty,” Ms. Ziegelman writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
The manuscript that shared her story with the world quoted her as promising to “hear all their cries ... and remedy all their miseries, sorrows, and pains.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025
It’s possible artificial intelligence won’t usher us into obsolescence before it joins us in tuning out the miseries inherent to existing.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 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
“He work us hard,” she’d say, her thoughts lighting out to old miseries.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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