weary
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Civil rights activist and former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer was weary when she spoke alongside Malcolm X at a church in Harlem in December 1964.
From Salon • May 28, 2026
Cage, who voiced a different version of the “Spider-Noir” character in the animated “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” is a good choice for the weary gumshoe.
From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026
She'd grown weary of pandering to pop tropes of the "strong, independent female"; and wanted to present a "more honest and vulnerable" version of herself.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
There’s Mrs. Duggan’s sitting room, for example, with its “faint, high whistling of the gas fire”; and “the weary clatter of half-hearted washing-up” in a depressing cafe.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
I was getting weary of his constant righteousness and the sense I was in some way a great disappointment to him.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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