discontent

The 13% slide, driven by discontent with quarterly results in which the Google Services unit missed analyst expectations, weighed on major U.S. stock indexes and fueled a drop in the Nasdaq composite.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Countries across Europe are grappling with a wave of rising discontent over the cost of living, with weeks of protests breaking out across France this month.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 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

The plan comes as Anthropic’s plans for a major initial public offering collide with public discontent around AI.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Just imagine what would happen if all eight of us were to feel sorry for ourselves or walk around with the discontent clearly visible on our faces.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

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

There was a lot of roiling discontents in Harry.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2022

Like “Last Winter, We Parted,” “My Annihilation” is an examination of selfhood — or of selfhood’s discontents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2022

“Parallel Mothers” would make a fine double feature with another recent film about motherhood and its discontents: “The Lost Daughter.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 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