weary
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Dogs snored next to their owners, who were glued to their phones, screens lighting up weary faces.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
“Investors may be weary of CoreWeave trying to boost its performance through financial derivatives at a time their core AI cloud business is seeing increased competition,” D.A.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Judging by some of the weary facial expressions from those undertaking this training, the same thought has crossed their minds.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Parks’s weary, bleak answer: “No. What I said was that, because of this, I have no career left.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
His soul, too, had been dragging a bit, weary and short-tempered.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
As time passes, you see two smiling, handsome young men change, gradually appearing wearier as war strips away their innocence.
From BBC ● May 25, 2023
Golovkin finally upped his work rate and made progress against a wearier Canelo in the late rounds, but it wasn’t enough.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2022
But Radha is older, wearier and more beaten down than Nola, and she takes a while longer to take ownership of her story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2020
This Friday, “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” starring Ben Affleck as an older, wearier action hero, opens, and I’ll probably use my 8-year-old son as an excuse to go see it.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2016
The wearier she grew, the heavier Constance seemed.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
That it happens this way every year, offering an annual day of hope to even the weariest baseball cities, remains somehow powerful.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2023
The sun has barely set on a roaring summer concert season and a busy fall slate ensures there will be no rest for even the weariest local music fans.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2022
The under-fire Steve Bruce must have met news of Ronaldo’s return with the weariest of sighs.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 11, 2021
Cruise seems weariest of all, flogging outdated merchandise he can’t even pretend to believe in.
From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2017
Do I take both before dinner, which is usually about 7:30, leaving an unbroken two-and-a-half-hour stretch when I’m weariest, between 8:30 and 11:00?
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
But numerous media reports suggest that he has been marginalised as Trump wearies of being controlled and seeks to cut loose.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 30, 2018
“Joy wearies me, and I hate happiness when I catch a glimpse of it in a human expression,” he told Newsweek in 1963.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2017
Despite the technical difficulty of writing almost entirely in dialogue, Compton-Burnett rarely wearies or falters.
From Time Magazine Archive
A 100-year-old scarlet oak has some privileges when it suddenly wearies.
From Time Magazine Archive
"If your work wearies you, Fifine," said Miss Dinah, "you had better read for us."
From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever
This was not something you could have accused her of over the summer, and was perhaps a sign of a body and mind wearied by nine months on the road.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2025
But Riggs delivered a message of hope for Americans wearied by attacks on voting rights.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2025
She recounted to The Washington Post in 2011 how she had already wearied of the rigors of the road before her first stroke.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024
There’s even the odd love song, in which Williams’ grizzled voice shades in the heartbreak with wearied affection.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024
She reported that she “fully understood the practical difficulties most women had to contend with...the chaotic conditions into which everything fell without her constant supervision, and the wearied, anxious look of the majority of women.”
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
At first it was staggering, the boom, boom, boom, watching both players crack heavy serve after heavy serve, but it started to become a little wearying, like watching an extended game of Whac-A-Mole.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
That’s not to say that “Our Little Secret” isn’t enjoyable all on its own, only that it’s become wearying to watch Lohan confined to the limits of a holiday movie made for a streamer.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2024
What he got had a wearying familiarity to it.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2024
They contend that the women in Cassatt’s paintings could only be accused of idleness by people who are ignorant about the wearying demands of child care and housekeeping.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2024
After a week of wearying rejection, the newness had worn off.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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