woe
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It is falling apart with a familiar tale of woe in Australia.
From BBC • Dec. 25, 2025
Property taxes are another housing woe for cash-strapped Americans.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 4, 2025
A yellow card for Japan's Charlie Lawrence left the home side temporarily short-handed and there was more injury woe for Australia when Josh Canham went off following a heavy hit.
From Barron's • Oct. 25, 2025
A certain life was expected for you, and woe betide you if you went outside of that.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2024
It was the goal of all of them, yearning, desiring, suffering; and the river’s voice was full of longing, full of smarting woe, full of insatiable desire.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
Vocabulary lists containing woe
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act II
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