comfort
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That may be little comfort to anyone hoping to get a mortgage or borrow money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
"It also gives us a bit of comfort as auctioneers that there are still things out there, waiting to be discovered."
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Walking into the busy newsroom brought a little bit of comfort.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
If you’re looking for a comfort watch: Call My Agent!, a delicious comedy series about a French talent agency, is back after several years off the air—and this time, it’s a movie.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2026
We took great comfort and courage from her endless patience and perseverance.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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With higher ticket prices and more competition — not only with other touring bands but with the allures of home comforts — audiences need a bigger draw.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Young Tony enjoys all the protections and comforts of an upper-middle-class existence in New Jersey.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
There’s a trade-off: We experience a little emotional discomfort by being constantly surveilled, but we are rewarded with the more physical comforts of safety and efficiency.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026
Former Arsenal midfielder and Wales captain Aaron Ramsey applies a tourniquet, while ex-Chelsea and Argentina goalkeeper Willy Caballero comforts the casualty.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Ironically, her logical, if demeaning, reply is the only one that comforts me.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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Eventually, she’s comforted by her unwavering support of Keeley, who is just the right mix of adorable, attractive and ambitious, and the fact that at least she’s not an anti-feminist like her mother.
From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026
Meanwhile, at a sports hall in Las Rozas de Madrid just outside the capital, the displaced sprawled on camp beds, held their heads in their hands and comforted pets as they awaited news.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
I learned to regulate difficult emotions—sadness, anger, fear—much as I had comforted the wounded child alive within me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
He told the BBC he was both overwhelmed and comforted by the massive police presence when he arrived at the centre, San Diego County's second largest mosque, which also houses a primary school.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
I couldn’t be easily comforted by the suggestion that my dad had gone to a better place or was sitting with angels.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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But fear not, Margo’s wig remains a comforting presence through it all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
This will be its sixth season in five years, and in an age when streaming shows can take years between seasons, there’s something comforting in such a reliably consistent cadence.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
The main image captures grieving families holding and comforting each other.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
There was a comforting nostalgia in watching her surrounded by tchotchkes, radiating the loose, warm confidence that made “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” such a phenomenon in the 1990s.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
The chicken and zucchini casserole was so comforting and so delicious that we stuffed ourselves until we couldn’t move.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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