torment
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Still, Messinger, 85 years old, described the same torment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
They added that since the fatal crash, they "have lived every day since then in torment — without peace, without answers, and without accountability".
From BBC • May 1, 2026
Reigning champion Rory McIlroy has the largest 36-hole lead in Masters history, but unusually hot and dry weather is set to firm up the course and torment the world’s best golfers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
“Wuthering Heights” knew what it was about, and Brontë, despite her lack of firsthand experience in love, had the scripts of normative femininity dead to rights with the book’s relentless conflation of love and torment.
From Salon • Feb. 21, 2026
“She’ll be a soul in torment, carried off just when she was fixing to lock us up in that schoolhouse for another year.”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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