consolation

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

Cheaper chicken is little consolation to David Manhire, who owns Summer Daze Catering in Basking Ridge, N.J., about an hour outside New York City.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

If it’s any consolation to Knicks fans, though, MSG Sports stock isn’t alone.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

The numerical success of the calf’s species is little consolation for the suffering the individual endures.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Throughout the book she displays the fundamental bewilderment of the secular postmodernist contending with huge life events while cut off from the consolations of any one tradition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

But what these consolations must entail has often been a fraught debate.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 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

And memory — what consolations can it offer when we know it doesn’t last?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 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