distress
Example Sentences
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Patients publicly adopted the language of “body positivity,” while privately describing distress they felt unsure how to voice.
The boat, loaded with more than 200 people, made a distress call overnight Wednesday to Thursday near the North Bank region.
From Barron's
"With the rise of antisemitism, and recent horrific attacks, I know this has added to the distress of many in the Jewish community in the UK," he added.
From BBC
Seeing my distress, he chuckled and said I wasn’t the first to mix them up.
Briana Fair, a mental health clinician with the San Mateo Police Department, received a dozen voicemails from the same distressed caller over a single weekend this month.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
