depression
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Enormous pressure placed on students in South Korea's ultra-competitive education system has been partly blamed for teenage depression and suicide rates that are among the highest in the world.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
One with pink hair said she had plunged into depression.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
He’s talking about the fractured Germany, but his depression speaks to something closer to home too.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
At that particular time, I was suffering from anxiety and depression.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
He married and has two children, but watching television footage of the Gulf War in 1990 threw him into a deep depression.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
Wars, diseases, revolutions, depressions, bankruptcies, financial crises and natural disasters all swept through history and wiped out wealth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Nonsurgical options like dermal fillers or fat grafting can suffuse depressions to create a more centered appearance.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2026
He added: “I know I could not have been so calm through depressions, inflations, banking and currency crises, wars and political disruptions.”
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 18, 2026
The energy released by the blast may have also created small depressions in the ground that later filled with water, forming today's swamps and lakes.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 19, 2025
She toyed with her knife making circular depressions in a pat of butter and the movement hypnotized me.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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