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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
discomfort .
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Examples
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Although many Singaporeans are "discomforted seeing about one million foreign workers in our total population of 5.1 million," many of those workers do the construction and heavy work needed to keep Singapore's economy humming.
Lee Warns of Further Inflation for U.S. Patrick Barta 2011
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Although many Singaporeans are "discomforted seeing about one million foreign workers in our total population of 5.1 million," many of those workers do the construction and heavy work needed to keep Singapore's economy humming.
Lee Kuan Yew: US Policies Bad For Dollar; Singapore Seeks Balance On Stronger Local Dollar Patrick Barta 2011
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We all remember how the army was sent into Toronto when the mayor felt that citizens were being discomforted by a snowstorm.
Charlie Angus: What if They Declared an Emergency and No One Came? Charlie Angus 2011
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And on Thursday, Shanghai authorities appeared to take preventive action to address how rising operating costs have discomforted a traditional source of public grumbling: taxi drivers.
Truckers Idle Rigs in Shanghai James T. Areddy 2011
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China's quotas, which have been tightened several years in a row but especially so in 2010, have discomforted governments fearful that Beijing could use industry dominance as a trade weapon.
China's Rare-Earth Exports Slide, Still Bust Quota James T. Areddy 2011
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We all remember how the army was sent into Toronto when the mayor felt that citizens were being discomforted by a snowstorm.
Charlie Angus: What if They Declared an Emergency and No One Came? Charlie Angus 2011
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As a delighted Fallon watches me ask a mildly discomforted Stier to discuss the jockey's comments, the Australian apologises and says he can't speak in public.
Kieren Fallon: 'You expect me to count how many times I hit a horse?' 2011
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And he is discomforted at every turn, by dysfunctional journalists.
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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Barthes found himself profoundly discomforted; he knew he was in the presence of a certain way of reading that was prevalent in society, exploited ruthlessly by the media, but false, unethical and plain wrong.
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And discomforted brown bears amble towards the woods.
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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