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The good news about the economy is cold comfort to people who have lost their jobs.
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That's likely cold comfort for the artist advocating for prompting alone to constitute authorship.
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Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2025
But this is cold comfort: When DOGE employees tried to access a secure system at USAID that included personnel files, John Voorhees, that agency’s director of security, confronted them.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2025
But that’s surely cold comfort to the Russian tank crews who are getting blasted now.
—David Axe, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
But given the law's five-year window for enforcement, the Justice Department's failure to enforce the law today could be cold comfort.
—Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2025
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Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2025
But this is cold comfort: When DOGE employees tried to access a secure system at USAID that included personnel files, John Voorhees, that agency’s director of security, confronted them.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 5 Feb. 2025
But that’s surely cold comfort to the Russian tank crews who are getting blasted now.
—David Axe, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
But given the law's five-year window for enforcement, the Justice Department's failure to enforce the law today could be cold comfort.
—Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for cold comfort
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“Cold comfort.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cold%20comfort. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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