adversity

My friend Dave Blake turned adversity into limitless opportunity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

McKinney isn’t seeking sympathy, but believes sharing his backstory shows he’s “lived a life that mirrors a lot of the adversity Angelenos face every day.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

"Liverpool has always had a different kind of attitude, especially to adversity," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

If anything, adversity seems only to have fortified these musicians, which may in part account for Mr. Noseda’s decision in March 2025 to renew his contract with the NSO through 2030-31, its centennial season.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

“It’s kind of a hardcore ornithology-geek thing. Roughing it gets you closer to your subjects, both physically and psychologically. Achievement through adversity and all that.”

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

Throughout our conversation, she doesn’t shy away from explaining her life’s adversities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2025

A study conducted at the University of Turku in Finland shows that investment by maternal grandmothers can improve the well-being of grandchildren who have faced adversities in life.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024

“This is a story of 45 individuals providing a window through which we can observe how they endured major adversities and built a society where compassion and mercy prevailed.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2024

More women are having children later, and the age-related decline of the body leads to more adversities, complications, and, occasionally, even death during pregnancy and childbirth.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2023

Along with everyone else, he had received his own bound and illustrated tale of love, adversities overcome, reunion and a wedding.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan