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How to use the word Frustration in a Sentence?

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Place my well-being above the fear of my anger. I would prefer experiencing frustration while working towards overcoming an addiction rather than risking my life due to the hesitation to confront the issue and potentially losing me. Prioritize my safety and health over the temporary discomfort of dealing with my emotions.

– Christen Kuikoua

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1 month ago

All legal ballots were counted and included in the official results, but the printer issues caused frustration for many Election Day voters, something the Board has vowed to remedy.

– Maricopa County

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I hate it so much and it’s just a one-off hit, and I got caught. It’s been building on me a few years. Frustration and anger at the sport itself, in any elite sport, I believe the top is not a level playing field like they say. I started to ask Hannah Peters/Getty Images Robertson this question : ‘ Why do people like Hannah Peters/Getty Images Robertson always have to be the ones to lose or suffer, and in the end lose our contracts, lose our income, lose our race winnings and eventually end up not having the ability to have a family or live anywhere else in the world in the predicaments we’re in ? ’.

– Hannah Peters/Getty Images Robertson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They care about policies that don’t really help someone who just lives in the city and just want to be safe, who wants their kids to be educated well, they forgot the core problems for regular people. I wanted to do something to try to change and take that power back. It was fear and frustration, a lot of frustration, that I turned into action.

– Asian Americans

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I see this frustration with the direction of the party, asian Americans feel like Democrats are focused on the wrong things, that they’ve let ideology run amok. If Democrats don’t redouble their efforts to focus on core Democratic issues, they will lose people of color over time.

– Charles Jung

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People posting on social media are going to romanticize the day and if you’re already struggling, this will only exacerbate your frustration, i counsel my clients not to ‘interview for pain’ by swiping through social media making up romantic movies to go along with the posts. Instead, unplug for the night and do something nice for yourself.

– Jennifer Guttman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Think of it: zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these truths identical, and all logically incompatible with one another : 'My hereditary material is the most important material on earth; its survival justifies your frustration, pain, even death'. And you are one of those organisms, living your life in the thrall of a logical absurdity.

– Robert Wright

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

The public value of being able to see the human interactions in frustration, in warmth, in all of those things far outweighs the risk that people will play to the cameras. I mean, we have that during debate one way or the other, i think some of the old guard in Congress opposes this because they want to continue to maintain the fiction that when four or five people are on the floor spending millions of dollars, that that is actually the action of the whole legislative body when the reality is far different.

– Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s a way to embrace the policies that worked during the Trump administration without getting bogged down in the divisive intra-party squabbles that have created real resentment and frustration throughout the party at a time when Republicans should be scoring easy victories up and down the ballot.

– House Republicans

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The frustration is there, the question is what will be the spark needed to turn this moment to political mobilization where people take to the streets.

– Carlos Suárez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Texas Department of Public Safety has offered inconsistent accounts of how law enforcement responded to the Uvalde tragedy, and its lack of transparency has stirred suspicion and frustration in a community that is still struggling with grief and shock, dPS has refused numerous requests by these news organizations even though it's clear under Texas law that the public is entitled to have access to these important public records. We ask that the court grant our petition so that the people of Texas can understand the truth about what happened.

– Laura Lee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Well, I mean, I look at it and it says obviously there's some interest, there was a lot of frustration, just kind of personally, for the last, I guess, year and a half, like, what's DOJ doing ? I think our investigation, though it is not a criminal investigation, certainly has brought some things to light that DOJ is watching, and it seems like between that and some of the search warrants that have been served and some of the other things that we have seen, that they are moving forward.

– Adam Kinzinger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I always acknowledge the frustration because I feel it too. I mean I think the rage and the anger and the frustration is important, i want us to keep up our anger and channel our frustration which is very, very, very legitimate and necessary frankly, in order to get what we need to get.

– Pramila Jayapal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This rose up out of staffers' frustration.

– Saul Levin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's taken no convincing, it's like --' Where's the link ?' this rose up out of staffers' frustration.

– Saul Levin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My expression is one of frustration, watching now for many years, in many ways predating the current climate and the current administration, the success of the right to define the terms of the debate, the success of the right to dominate the narrative... they're winning in ways that are alarming to me.

– Gavin Newsom

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When we held the first media briefing on June 16, [2021], honestly, we expected to have good news to report by the time the next media briefing came around, unfortunately, instead, day after day ended in frustration and disappointment.

– Leslie Earhart

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Urgent questions about the police response to the massacre have not been answered with clarity or consistency, and residents' frustration began to boil over on social media, the information gap became a partisan talking point, and elected officials began to demand answers and an investigation.

– Marc Duvoisin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Frustration is not a strategy, and it leads to dejection and defeat if we allow it to consume our thinking, we have to push back even in the most difficult times we have faced as people. The times demand that we be resolute.

– Marc Morial

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We thought that neuroticism would have likely gone one of two ways, either preferring sad music to express their loneliness or preferring upbeat music to shift their mood. Actually, on average, they seem to prefer more intense musical styles, which perhaps reflects inner angst and frustration, that was surprising but people use music in different ways -- some might use it for catharsis, others to change their mood. We'll be looking into that in more detail.

– David Greenberg

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I had a great source that told me that up to two weeks ago, the [Biden] administration was pressing Zelenskyy to cut a deal when he's doing counterattacks, when he's pushing the Russians back, when whole Russian units are being decimated, we're asking him to cut a deal. Can you imagine his frustration when he got that phone call?

– Jack Keane

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

And I appreciated it. He was honest. At that point, it was kinda wrapping your head around that. There’s disappointment and frustration for sure that sets in at that point.

– Indianapolis Colts

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

No, you know, I really thought I was going to be back. That was the feeling I got at the end of the year and in the exit meetings. Then it was a phone call from [coach] Arthur Smith, Sunday before everything went down, saying that he didn’t know how things were gonna shake out this week, making me aware of what was going on, and I appreciated it. He was honest. At that point, it was kinda wrapping your head around that. There’s disappointment and frustration for sure that sets in at that point.

– Indianapolis Colts

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Being able to dig in and doing whatever it takes to win hockey games, being able to find our game, being able to forget about a bad shift or a bad period, not let it stack, not let the frustration overcome us. ... Starting to work hard, work for each other, communicate, those are very important things, things that we can build on.

– Chris Kreider

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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