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
Who knows what deliverables he promised, but all he wrought was more frustration and misery for the team’s long-suffering, loyal fans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
El Niño is associated with drought and misery for farmers and epic food-price inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
“Harriet, poor Harriet!”—Those were the words; in them lay the tormenting ideas which Emma could not get rid of, and which constituted the real misery of the business to her.
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
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
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
I was staring at my mother’s private miseries, and it made me want to go outside and bury the book in the dirt.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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