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- during the 1930s the U.S. suffered a great depression
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- she called her friend to see if a sympathetic ear would relieve his depression
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- blue devils,
- blues,
- dejection,
- desolation,
- despond,
- despondence,
- despondency,
- disconsolateness,
- dispiritedness,
- doldrums,
- dolefulness,
- downheartedness,
- dreariness,
- dumps,
- forlornness,
- gloom,
- gloominess,
- glumness,
- heartsickness,
- joylessness,
- melancholy,
- miserableness,
- mopes,
- mournfulness,
- oppression,
- sadness,
- sorrowfulness,
- unhappiness
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- the water generally collects in the patchwork of depressions in the city plaza
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- a depression in the number of new homes being built
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“Depression.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/depression. Accessed 13 Aug. 2020.
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The first known use of depression was in the 14th century
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