tribulations

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In general, your trials and tribulations should not become somebody else's trials and tribulations.

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Quick take

Any adversity; a trying period or event.

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noun

Any adversity; a trying period or event.

noun

(Christian eschatology) (A period of) persecution before the Second Coming, lasting seven years, which Christians will experience worldwide which will purify and strengthen them.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tribulations.

noun

Any adversity; a trying period or event.

noun

(Christian eschatology) (A period of) persecution before the Second Coming, lasting seven years, which Christians will experience worldwide which will purify and strengthen them.

Example sentences

In general, your trials and tribulations should not become somebody else's trials and tribulations.

You have to let go of your 'self' to find yourself and that can mean trials and tribulations, but struggle and suffering is the human condition.

Let alone Mail went through all those trials and tribulations where it really didn't want to think you read your mail.

Add a camera, and wham, instant reality show: the trials and tribulations of six young programmers hard at work for their millions.

I think this article says a lot about the tribulations of doing your first startup from scratch.

Where Betas on the other hand is more like an entertaining story about the realistic seeming trials and tribulations a startup could face.

I thought HomeJoy was an awesome idea at first, until I started reading about the experiences, and tribulations, of their...contractors?

I inferred such thing must exist, but I never encountered it in the real world during my tribulations so far:) thank you.

This echoes the tribulations of the original Starcraft devs.

If you are using speed as your mark, then you have never coded for the web and have never gone through the trials and tribulations of IE.

Whether it's YPO, old college friends, new entrepreneurs, whatever - no one understands the trials and tribulations of being a CEO other than someone who has lived it.

I read this, all these tribulations over years, and then just chuckle as I remember all the people who love to call Notch incompetent.

Quote examples

But I am qualified to understand a programmer's tribulations, having been paid good money to do "software archaeology", and most certainly am qualified to interpret overt conspiracies to keep people from being published, or to get their community to shun a journal that did publish a paper with thoughtcrime.