adversity
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Jamie Jones-Buchanan, a former teammate of Rob Burrow, described the team's ethos in good and bad times: "We went through success and adversity, but we always came out on the other side together."
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Middlesex had to overcome adversity more than once in Nottingham as they ended their long wait for a trophy.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Good thing the Chargers’ new play-caller craves adversity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
As his heartbroken team dressed in the locker room, Taylor pledged that the adversity would shape them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Isaac was a poet, you see, and in the adversity the words kept coming.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
“I’ve seen how our guys have responded to adversities and losing streaks, and so it’s not a panic situation,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Friday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
The judge added that Mr Fox had tried to "attach blame and discredit" Mr Blake and Mr Seymour during the litigation, and hold them responsible "for a range of his own life's adversities".
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2024
All of which help combat these adversities we hinted at in the study.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 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
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
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