travail
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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
Lors d’une de ses foires, récemment, M. Piens a positionné un stand exposant le travail d’Invader contre le pilier où l’artiste avait subrepticement placé une mosaïque.
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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