miseries

plural of misery

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of miseries But current virus variants continue to spread burning throats, fevers and other miseries. Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2025 Task begins by setting up the parallels between Tom and Robbie, two flawed men trying to keep their heads above the water of their own miseries, cutting back and forth between their routines to emphasize their similar ideologies and spontaneities. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025 Rather than taking the newcomers in, Friedrich leads them to some distant caves and trusts that the miseries of island life—extreme heat, torrential rains, pesky insects, vicious dogs—will soon send them packing. Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2025 The reductive, conventional wisdom in the party held that nonwhite voters, especially Hispanic Americans, would be the key to a new Democratic national majority after the party’s miseries in the post-9/11 world. Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 19 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for miseries
Noun
  • Yet, the new Terminal 1 has several stores that take great pains to include local flair.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The movie is, in part, about the labor pains of its creator, the screenwriter Charlie Kaufman.
    Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Symptoms include high anxiety, avoidance of reminders of the trauma, emotional numbness, hypervigilance, frequent intrusive memories of trauma, nightmares and flashbacks.
    Arash Javanbakht, The Conversation, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Now, the nightmares come to Switch 2.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • More than a thousand miles away in New Delhi, Mohammad waits for his daughter, powerless to save her for a second time from the horrors faced by their community in Myanmar.
    Esha Mitra, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Hard Rock Stadium is a house of horrors for the Patriots dating back to their dynasty days.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Miseries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miseries. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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