consolation

But its dominant impression is a dark one that allows for little consolation in the remembrance of war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Adjusted for inflation, truckers aren’t yet filling up at 2022 levels, but that is small consolation: Diesel prices have soared 56% since the war began and $2.14 a gallon from a year ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

England is playing in the consolation final for the second time in three World Cups; it lost to Belgium 2-1 in 2018.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Goals from Ron Flowers, Bobby Charlton and Jimmy Greaves put England into an unassailable 3-0 lead, with a late consolation from Argentina.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

Some weeks previous, Mr. Sharpe had told my friend Private G—g that I was in demand to play with the orchestra gathered for the diversion of the officers and the consolation of the besieged.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

In her second book, Hekker noted some consolations for first wives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Let's give the biblical authors credit for taking the sublimity of our loss straight up instead of chasing false consolations.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2024

Scotland rallied and scored some consolations, not that it mattered.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2023

“Instead of an honest conversation with a nation, we get blurry consolations about Napoleon’s conquest of Moscow: Don’t worry, everything is going to plan,” he said.

From New York Times ● May 30, 2023

Without the support of old certainties and consolations, almost mechanically, he assumes the procedures and doctrines of the classroom.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez