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Discouraging opener for the Cardinals, followed up by another tough road trip … UCF 35-31.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2022

Discouraging public worship, warned Metropolitan Longin, a senior churchman in Saratov, a region in southwestern Russia, only revived painful memories of Soviet-era repression.

From New York Times • May 5, 2020

Nunes, who last year cosponsored legislation titled the Discouraging Frivolous Lawsuits Act, has a hard road ahead to winning the suit.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2019

My friend Jonathan Chait at New York Magazine calls this “bonkers,” and The Post’s Aaron Blake sees “ridiculousness” in the lawsuit, particularly given Nunes’s co-sponsorship of a bill called the Discouraging Frivolous Lawsuits Act.

From Washington Post • Mar. 19, 2019

Discouraging as the outlook was, some bitter experience might have been escaped if the Alcotts had remained in Concord, pursuing their unambitious career.

From Daughters of the Puritans A Group of Brief Biographies by Beach, Seth Curtis