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[weer-ee] / ˈwɪər i /




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How do Facebook, Instagram and all of Zuck’s other spawn remain integral parts of our lives until we die if users eventually get weary enough to figure out their existence is better off without them?

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

Though the president spoke in front of foreign leaders and dignitaries, the real audience was the American public, which has grown weary of the conflict.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

“We’ve talked to everyone we can,” Al-Drimly said, his voice weary.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

Cubans are not shy about admitting that they are increasingly weary of the constant disruptions to daily life.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

He was dog-tired, and his weary body ached from five bumpy hours on horseback.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

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

And the seemingly endless restrictions leave more ordinary Chinese people wearier by the day.

From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2022

Officials across the U.S. are again weighing how and whether to impose mask mandates as COVID-19 infections soar and the American public grows ever wearier of pandemic-related restrictions.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 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

He ought to have been wearier now, but he was not.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

With what had to be the weariest left hand in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed the last of nearly 1,000 bills he approved this year.

From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2022

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

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

Richard wearies of making spaniel eyes at the termagant widow and rejects her quite brutally when she decides he'll do.

From Time Magazine Archive

One wearies of this perpetual character's perpetual library, crowded, as it always is, with the latest French and German monographs.

From Essays on Modern Novelists by William Lyon Phelps

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

But in a wearied tone, he told me “in SELA, sometimes it isn’t about someone getting rid of corruption and cleaning up the city.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2025

Waves of attacks pounded down on Paris St.-Germain, now dizzied and wearied.

From New York Times ● May 3, 2024

My arms wearied as I worked the flour into the stiff dough.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

Since that man is at no point real to us—no more than the character in a comic sketch—the film’s increasing wildness takes on the feeling of a wearying and empty freakout.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

But everyone is going through something difficult in “Cordially,” and the lack of, well, cordiality can be wearying.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025

It made parenting less wearying when I could flick through my kids’ toy catalogs, searching for the toys I wanted.

From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2024

Mr. Irwin, 71, previously an account manager for a local business, is wearying of yard work and snow shoveling, and finding workers to do those chores instead has become difficult.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2024

A long and wearying thing in which I’m trying to get to District 12.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins




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