dishearten
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Many young voters say that would dishearten them.
From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026
I began to wonder what we were going to find in this wasteland, but I didn’t want to say anything to dishearten Duncan.
From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2024
In “On Fire,” Naomi Klein’s purpose is not to dishearten but to awaken us to the growing global movement called the Green New Deal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2023
Each day, 22 people die in want of organs, which should dishearten all Americans.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2023
“Do not be dishearten, young bahss. Today, we will be foun, to be true.”
From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
“It saddens me, it disgusts me and disheartens me,” Alvarez said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2023
"It disgusts me and disheartens me that people in our nation seem incapable of being decent people."
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2022
It allows those who are responsible to remain unaccountable, and it disheartens those who seek to do the right thing.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 2, 2021
And so the familiarity of McBride’s M.O. disheartens.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2019
The reaction of our solitary emotions, after a social impulse of such peculiar excitement, very much disheartens and depresses us.
From Henrietta Temple A Love Story by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
The plant's owner insists it adheres to required emission thresholds, but the government's closure U-turn has left some locals disheartened.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
He speculated that scholars and Americans in general were too disheartened by Vietnam to want to contemplate a traumatic rupture like the Civil War.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Buchalter added that investors were likely more disheartened by Broadcom’s announcement of a fifth unnamed customer that it will deliver $1 billion of custom chips to late next year.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 15, 2025
A pair of jeans could easily be a size 10 by one brand and a size 14 in another, leaving customers confused and disheartened.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2025
The small tribe of Iks, formerly nomadic hunters and gatherers in the mountain valleys of northern Uganda, have become celebrities, literary symbols for the ultimate fate of disheartened, heartless mankind at large.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
What’s disheartening is that she pretends there is no connection, telling Vogue Italia last week, “Algorithms and artificial intelligence are the opposite of taking risks to me, and that is the opposite of making art.”
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
We’ll see several startling upsets in this round that won’t end up mattering, along with a disheartening number of 0-0 and 1-1 draws.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
Shelly Corbin, a Native American activist who participated in the “Reimagining” meetings, found the federal suit disheartening.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
"So it's a bit disheartening and annoying really."
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
She was eager to do it, but she found the process disheartening.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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