distressed
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MLB owners have been distressed as franchise values — ultimately, sale prices — have not appreciated as rapidly as they have in other sports.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
Millions that he poured into distressed bets exploded in value.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026
As demand waned in the following years, companies conducted mass layoffs, leading private-equity firms to swoop in to pick over the remains of distressed assets.
From MarketWatch • May 23, 2026
"I've worked in other homes where there's no air conditioning unit and residents would become agitated and more distressed," she explained, adding there were restrictions on how far they could open windows.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
Slant is greatly distressed by this terrible lullaby; and protested to Olakunde, Pomp, and me, “Maybe he live for one hundred years. They can’t go eat him. Another thing can’t die. Not one more thing.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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