misery
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“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions,” she later noted, “and not upon our circumstances.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
"She's dead," he said hours later, misery etched into his face.
From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026
Things didn't get better as four years later they failed to qualify for Qatar and - after 45 minutes on Sunday - it looked like Salah's World Cup misery was set to continue.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
So here’s my question: Why are women so invested in Burden’s financial misery?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
But she was once the horrible, nasty, unbearable little girl who made my life pure misery.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
But it also quite consciously plays to the baser side of us that takes cold comfort, even joy, at the miseries of the hyperwealthy.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026
No wonder mud became “shorthand for the miseries of poverty,” Ms. Ziegelman writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Apartments, in her view, have spared her from the miseries of suburban housing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025
Mr Maneshinde said Chakraborty went through "untold miseries" and was jailed "for no fault of hers".
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2025
Rain caused one to reflect on the shadowed, more poignant parts of life—the inescapable sorrows, the speechless longings, the disappointments, the regrets, the cold miseries.
From "Abel's Island" by William Steig
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