hurt
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Meanwhile, for those who like their coffee with sugar, excessive rainfall could hurt Brazil’s sugarcane harvest season, while India’s major sugarcane-growing states could experience drought, said Roemer.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
The most egregious came from Michael Robinson of the NFL Network, who said that, in relation to Hurts’ current injury, Hurts seemed to be saying, “If everybody’s hurt, then I’m hurt too.”
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
Chris Paxton KC, prosecuting, said it was "sheer good fortune" the "defenceless and vulnerable" pupil was not seriously hurt.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
They reckon that Montage won’t be hurt by the memory cycle and it is a proxy for server CPU demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Because she’d moved on to using my secret to hurt me.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
The situation that we wanted to sustain throughout the season was she’s not doing these things because she got shot, her stomach hurts and she’s mad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Energy producers make money in exactly the scenario that hurts AI.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
“You’re going to have excess production capacity, and that’s going to create much more competition between mills to drive down prices, and that hurts profits,” said Josh Spoores, an analyst for steel market forecaster CRU.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
"That hurts, it hurts a lot," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
“They have to put your needs first. Over Sir Fig Newton’s. No matter how much it hurts you and them.”
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
An under-appreciated factor hurting them as much as high mortgage rates and inflation has been immigration raids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
“He was so sensitive and empathetic. I couldn’t imagine him hurting a flea.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
“At the same time, emotional expression needs to be paired with responsibility—children should learn that having strong emotions is okay, but hurting others or violating someone’s boundaries is not.”
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026
“It’s like any other caregiving task. It feels less bad the further you go along. He was actively hurting himself. He had over $1,000 in insufficient-funds fees because he wasn’t keeping track of his spending.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
“I felt my soul had been permanently scarred. I lived in fear of hurting someone around me, especially my family.”
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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