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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dolorousness
Noun
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Power Ballad should be breezy and fun, with that twist of mournfulness that Carney is always so adept at pulling off.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
29 May 2026
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Some surveys show deeper discontent.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 July 2025
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The left-wing Mamdani’s victory comes amid widespread discontent over an economy perceived to no longer be working for the middle class.—
Christiaan Hetzner,
Fortune,
3 July 2025
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Many shows purport to get at the real pain of rich families untroubled by money woes, but few stick the landing.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
11 Dec. 2025
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And nearly a year into his second term, the administration believes that many of the nation's economic woes can still be attributed to Biden-era policies.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Dec. 2025
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The company that’s accustomed to defying gravity is now defying market physics.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
16 June 2026
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The fact that much of the region excluded by the team hasn't been explored experimentally lays the groundwork for making precise measurements of gravity to test quantum gravity.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
15 June 2026
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Only his beard breaks the blackness, the white cascading down his vestments.—
Grayson Haver Currin,
Pitchfork,
14 May 2026
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In it, a crescent of Earth’s blue vitality hovers amid the blackness of space, above a high-definition brownish gray wasteland of lunar craters.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
22 Apr. 2026
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But Torres said those facts did not outweigh the seriousness of the allegations.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
15 June 2026
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In Susan Sontag’s classic formulation, camp is failed seriousness, while the tragicomic is a seriousness of failure.—
Eugenie Brinkema,
ARTnews.com,
14 June 2026
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There’s a fine line between creating moodiness and making a space feel suffocating.—
Ashlyn Needham,
The Spruce,
4 June 2026
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The hormone pills can cause serious side effects, particularly fatigue and moodiness.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
31 May 2026
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