discomfort

But his art continually plays with discomfort and awkwardness in human interactions in a way that is painfully familiar to those of us who live it everyday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Changes in how the nervous system processes pain can also contribute to discomfort.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

In the first three months after insertion, for instance, 69 percent of participants experienced heavy bleeding, and 28 percent had pelvic discomfort.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

Laveaux is mostly used to the makeup but admits to occasional discomfort.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

“Will you be able to endure the discomfort? I hesitate to leave you.”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

As the latest heat wave discomforts Europe, France is arguing about air conditioning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

SuperMouth ULTIM8 SmartBrush System – Toothbrushes have long been one of travel’s little discomforts — often still damp from use, or less than effective when you pack a separate “travel” brush.

From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2025

After the interview, Isaac and co-host Ronald Young Jr. talk about the challenges and discomforts of self-promotion.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2024

For Mason Kidd, a 22-year-old freelance film producer, those are small discomforts worth bearing to watch history.

From BBC ● May 11, 2024

The office of the Local Commensal Farm Centrality was hectic and upset, but they made time to look after me, and apologized to me for the discomforts of the night past.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

The unapologetically Black person wears their Blackness every day, regardless of who is offended or discomforted by it.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

He found movement to take the edges of Crawley and Root, then bounced out the discomforted Smith.

From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2025

Mr. Kriegel’s raw emotion, it was plain, discomforted them.

From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2022

There were moments when Mitchell played rash drives at James Anderson and was briefly discomforted by short balls from Stokes, while Blundell looked skittish when leg-spinner Matt Parkinson came into the attack.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2022

All the same, the reproof in John Holbrook’s voice left her discomforted.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

Well, there’s a funny hidden message there, which is kind of discomforting if you really think about it.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

Stark, discomforting amplification diminishes intimacy and the luxurious richness of Bullock’s soprano, which easily fills a room on its own, suggests quiet terror, the lonely state of Nina Simone’s “Images.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2026

That calmed worries that had built on Wall Street that the inflation data could show a discomforting reacceleration.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

The absence of a human hand — made glaring and discomforting through the tiniest lapses of approximated intuition — can render the listening experience a valueless exchange, the music a bunk currency.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2023

Something is discomforting about a sun that gives no heat but keeps shining.

From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson