discontent
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The discontent is focused on leaders that voters feel are unable to address the day’s most pressing problems.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
"Omitting names could risk discontent among bereaved families and undermine its purpose."
From BBC • May 7, 2026
But the widespread internet outages, a slowing economy and rising prices have seen discontent trickle into the public domain in recent weeks.
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
Harron asserts that Solanas’ actions were not the result of a brief, blind rage, but of a chronic discontent — a state of mind that looks all the more familiar two decades later.
From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026
When, by August 1919, it became clear that was not going to happen, discontent within the various steel worker unions reached an all-time high.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
Vocabulary lists containing discontent
Power Prefix: dis-
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Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Of Mice and Men
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