solace
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Clements said he found solace in that work, particularly through his website the Humble Dollar, and he detailed his actions for his readers so that they could also benefit from his experience.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
But I hope they find solace in his namesake, St. Lawrence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
In the final phases of the first half, Bristol's Kalaveti Ravouvou appeared to have wormed over for a score that Fiji could take some solace from at the break.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Releasing in Spring 2020, the novel became a pandemic hit, providing both escape and solace from the world’s harsh uncertainty.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
They cannot persist without solace, without illusion, they are disordered before the naked picture of despair.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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But these small solaces, this idea of a table carefully tended, of a little beauty or attention to hearth and home, take on more power in these uncertain times.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
His only solaces are the U2 album Rattle and Hum and poetry.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 26, 2020
A singer who solaces souls with her soaring soprano, she is just as revelatory as a dramatic actress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2019
Diki is engaged to Vangos but pines for Jason who solaces himself with Aemilia.
From Time Magazine Archive
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They had thus immolated the flesh, and had reserved to themselves nothing of worldly possessions, nothing of earthly solaces; all had been laid upon the altar.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 by Johnson, Rossiter
And it was in Western Europe, wrecked by war and brooded over by the neo-Malthusians, but solaced by its industry and by U.S. aid, that "the most spectacular advances were made."
From Time Magazine Archive
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From that point on, solaced by his favorite wife, Queen Um Shagran, he settled into a remarkably sedate routine.
From Time Magazine Archive
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When he came to the U. S. from Italy, he worked in Manhattan, solaced his leisure tooting in a small brass band.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The medieval idea of the Mater Dolorosa solaced her when she lost her own son.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I’m sure she solaced herself by being convinced that some misfit Maingault or Mortemar had got mixed up with the lodge-keeper’s daughter.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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In a handsome production by Christopher D. Betts, all of it takes place on a grassy expanse stretching into the distance, with a spiritual, “Fare Ye Well,” as a solacing aural motif.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
Intimations, Zadie Smith’s slender, solacing new personal essay collection about life during the COVID-19 crisis, is a May book.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2020
In Rachlin’s skilled hands, Grimes’s story triggers indignation but also confers solace, Grimes being one of the solacing features.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2017
In those early days of fog and joy and compromise, breastfeeding was an epiphany.There was a solacing sense of dignity to my being able to provide him with such basic nourishment, comfort, warmth, love.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2012
Nigerians, Ugandans, Kenyans, Ghanaians, South Africans, Tanzanians, Zimbabweans, one Congolese, and one Guinean sat around eating, talking, fueling spirits, and their different accents formed meshes of solacing sounds.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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