harrowing
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Appeared in the April 8, 2026, print edition as 'Travel Is Harrowing for Flyers in Wartime'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
Harrowing videos from the scene showed rescuers digging frantically with shovels and bare hands, searching by the light of cellphones and flashlights for injured survivors buried in deep craters in the sand.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2024
Harrowing Ukraine war documentary “20 Days in Mariupol,” produced by The Associated Press and PBS “Frontline,” is nominated for best documentary and best film not in the English language.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 18, 2024
Harrowing images have emerged of some of the millions of children caught in the catastrophic earthquake in Turkey and Syria.
From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2023
Yes, sir, we've got The Bandit of Harrowing Highway looking like a tame canary for adventures; hey Scout Nick?
From Pee-Wee Harris on the Trail by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese
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