weary
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May our children help us, from The World to Come, to pull up the straps of our backpacks and make them less heavy on our weary frames.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
The Citrus Show was meant to rally those weary troops, to assure them that help was on the way, that this was the bottom.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
“No, chimneys no longer smoke with the same sincerity as formerly, and hearts have grown weary and wooden in Hungary.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
Dr. Muhsen Abdullah, the surgeon who heads the emergency room, spoke with a weary tone of a ward without surgical thread or stitches, and anesthesiologists forced to ask patients to purchase their own anesthetic.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026
Ghosts were mostly friendly and less likely to see through their disguises than witches since, weary from their alive days, they tended to pay less attention to the living.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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