discontent
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However, both publicly and privately, sources at Chelsea and those close to Estevao have suggested no signs of discontent.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
The 13% slide was driven by discontent with the Google parent’s quarterly results.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
"There is some discontent among the rank and file, but they keep it to themselves out of respect for the institution and fear of losing promotions," he added.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
Democrats lead polls in the final stretch before the midterms; riots in France reflect enormous economic and political discontent; and DOJ lawyers spar with judge over Trump’s plans for public golf course in D.C.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026
“I poured out...the torrent of my long-accumulating discontent, with such vehemence and indignation that I stirred myself as well as the rest of the party to do and dare anything,” she later wrote.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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Always at the heart of these discontents was the battery—or batteries, because there has been a succession of them, an alchemist’s closet of energy-storing potions in weirdly shaped bottles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
I mean the movies that reveal something to us about the highs and lows, the glories and discontents, and above all something ineffable about love itself, transcending just romance.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
There was a lot of roiling discontents in Harry.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2022
‘Fight Club’ We’re not gonna talk about it, except to say that Brad Pitt and Edward Norton star in David Fincher’s divisive 1999 adaptation of the gritty Chuck Palahniuk novel about civilization and its discontents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2022
But men must work on, and Wang Lung worked as he had before, although the lengthening warm days and the sunshine and sudden rains filled everyone with longings and discontents.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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