Example Sentences

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But “The Book of Ayn” is rife with dissatisfactions — to its credit — and with self-aware jokes and serious questions about self-awareness.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2023

These interesting and extremely human but abstract dissatisfactions suffer by dint of the forced comparison to crappy conditions real people really lived with during the pandemic.

From Slate • Jun. 23, 2021

The Harvard economics professor Ken Rogoff points out that many of the dissatisfactions it seeks to address would be more effectively achieved by a rigorous assault on monopolies than a take-down of the free market.

From The Guardian • Aug. 19, 2018

He added, “Perhaps my basic dissatisfactions are what motivate me.”

From New York Times • May 19, 2017

You could tell malcontents, even if they did not voice their dissatisfactions, by their faces.

From The Blue Tower by Smith, Evelyn E.