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travail

[truh-veyl, trav-eyl] / trəˈveɪl, ˈtræv eɪl /


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Mulaney's second personal travail – which he does not address at all – was his highly publicized divorce from Anna-Marie Tendler and subsequent relationship with Olivia Munn with whom he had a child.

From Salon • May 3, 2023

“J’ai envahi l’espace public avec une mosaïque d’un petit personnage dont le rôle est d’envahir,” explique l’artiste qui se fait appeler Invader, interviewé dans l’espace privé d’une galerie parisienne qui expose son travail.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2023

Hurston was a “keen strategist of racial deference,” and her views on America’s racial travail clashed with those of another project writer and seminal Black author, Richard Wright.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2021

Yet I was confident I should ease his travail; and I prayed for him every day till we passed over into the camp prison.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2019

Here’s the beginning of love at the end of our travail.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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