misery
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Protesters chanted "shame on you" and "your profits, our misery", after the results were announced.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
For clients caught in a negative spiral, Mr. Schore suggests a “pity party”: designating a set amount of time to wallow in misery before snapping out of it and returning to productive behavior.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
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
She was offering to let Josie and Ivy learn from Lucinda’s own pain—from whatever Ashley did to hurt her, from all the misery Lucinda lived through during her sixth-grade year.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Few delights capture our attention as completely as stories that take joy in the miseries of the mega-rich.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
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
“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
“Our poor dear child has had a very short life, but I trust happy, and God only knows what miseries might have been in store for her,” Emma read.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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