hurt
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On Friday, the family received a second message: We never intended to hurt her, it said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Glasgow 2026 was also hurt by the absence or late withdrawal of big-name competitors, particularly in athletics, which missed Keely Hodgkinson, Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Dina Asher-Smith.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
For the agriculture market, sulfur has been the one commodity that might have been hurt the most by the war.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
The gap between who the score covers and who actually gets hurt is the whole story.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026
Some girl whispered “Oh” suddenly, and it sounded like she had hurt herself or something.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
“I’m typing this as I’m quite literally bawling my eyes out in my dressing room & it hurts me so much to disappoint you all.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
"We are witnessing an avoidable crisis that disproportionally hurts children," said Andrew Racine, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
USA Today has a lawsuit pending against Google, alleging it holds a monopoly in ad tech that hurts the publisher’s ad revenue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Gusharan added: "Our family is very poor. She always thinks about us first. She was very supportive to me. She was my world. My heart hurts."
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
It hurts so much I immediately have to stop thinking about it.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
Young describes his childhood mostly from the perspective of a boy — alternately bewildered, hurting, depressed and “mad all the time.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
The fines against Google have been expected for months as part of a probe that began in 2024, but Brussels has faced claims of delaying the move over fears of hurting ties with Washington.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
He said that Tesla “seems unwilling or unable to reduce the uncertainty” around its scale-up, which is “clearly” hurting the stock.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Meanwhile, bitcoin has roughly halved since reaching a peak in October last year, hurting the value of Strategy’s stash, which is now valued at about $54 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
This was the same kind of animal we had to hide our chickens from, but it was still hurting.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
