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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

En plus, il estime son travail loin d’être achevée..

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

Forty is a biblical number, used as shorthand for a long period of isolation and travail.

From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2020

He saw him through his travail of celibacy and felt that he was guiding him into calm waters.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck




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