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Example sentences for: adversity

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Everybody loves a success story, and triumph over adversity is always uplifting.
The party described in the Slate piece was intended to signify Medavoy's triumph over adversity: new wife, new job, and so on.
I agree entirely that communities are cemented by adversity, although I don't think that absolves Disney from a royal screw-up with respect to the school.
And adversity came.
To convert this adversity into an advantage, McCain accuses his critics of subverting the national interest for the sake of "partisan ambitions."