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Analogies that may have been comforting when they set thousands of deaths beside tens of millions have become less so as the difference in the number of zeros has decreased.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2022

It would have been comforting, I thought, to have had books like Woodson’s when I was a child.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2019

The words might have been comforting had she not heard them from Alexa— Amazon.com Inc.’s voice assistant which powers the Echo Dot speaker on her nightstand.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2018

The sight of the Rangers might not have been comforting, either — it was against them that he tore his hamstring while running the bases during the 2010 playoffs.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2015

But it would have been comforting to squeeze something tightly, like a sword hilt, instead of squishing a handful of figs into a sloppy mush.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri