discontent
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Social media has many users trapped in nostalgia loops, desperately clinging to a simpler era that wasn’t so uniquely mired in digital discontent.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
Despite the global discontent, economists say Chinese authorities are unlikely to allow fast currency appreciation due to the potential for negative side effects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Several protesters blamed Merz's government for failing to address discontent.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
Sometimes the seeds of discontent get planted early, only to sprout with the turn of the seasons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
“All right. The snow may be falling in the winter of my discontent, but at least I’ve got sarcastic company. Sit down, will ya?”
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
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
Like “Last Winter, We Parted,” “My Annihilation” is an examination of selfhood — or of selfhood’s discontents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 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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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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