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[sol-is] / ˈsɒl ɪs /




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He never imagined his private solace bringing such public recognition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

That through all the tragedy and trauma, this couple found solace in each other and they've been married for 34 years.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Even when life offers her a grain of solace or happiness, the morsel is already rotting from the inside out.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

So as my friends and I work through the shorter-term strain pets are having on our spending, we can take solace in some longer-term benefits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

People may be able to take solace from it, but it’s clear that the statement is not falsifiable and hence, as the English philosopher Karl Popper has insisted, not part of science.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

But these small solaces, this idea of a table carefully tended, of a little beauty or attention to hearth and home, take on more power in these uncertain times.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

His only solaces are the U2 album Rattle and Hum and poetry.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 26, 2020

A singer who solaces souls with her soaring soprano, she is just as revelatory as a dramatic actress.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2019

Diki is engaged to Vangos but pines for Jason who solaces himself with Aemilia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Noble sir, it solaces me much to meet you.

From Historic Tales, Vol 14 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris

When he came to the U. S. from Italy, he worked in Manhattan, solaced his leisure tooting in a small brass band.

From Time Magazine Archive

And it was in Western Europe, wrecked by war and brooded over by the neo-Malthusians, but solaced by its industry and by U.S. aid, that "the most spectacular advances were made."

From Time Magazine Archive

The medieval idea of the Mater Dolorosa solaced her when she lost her own son.

From Time Magazine Archive

From that point on, solaced by his favorite wife, Queen Um Shagran, he settled into a remarkably sedate routine.

From Time Magazine Archive

I’m sure she solaced herself by being convinced that some misfit Maingault or Mortemar had got mixed up with the lodge-keeper’s daughter.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

In a handsome production by Christopher D. Betts, all of it takes place on a grassy expanse stretching into the distance, with a spiritual, “Fare Ye Well,” as a solacing aural motif.

From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021

Intimations, Zadie Smith’s slender, solacing new personal essay collection about life during the COVID-19 crisis, is a May book.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2020

In Rachlin’s skilled hands, Grimes’s story triggers indignation but also confers solace, Grimes being one of the solacing features.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2017

In those early days of fog and joy and compromise, breastfeeding was an epiphany.There was a solacing sense of dignity to my being able to provide him with such basic nourishment, comfort, warmth, love.

From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2012

Nigerians, Ugandans, Kenyans, Ghanaians, South Africans, Tanzanians, Zimbabweans, one Congolese, and one Guinean sat around eating, talking, fueling spirits, and their different accents formed meshes of solacing sounds.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


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