ordeal
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Breast cancer is not included in France's official list of occupational diseases, meaning that obtaining recognition can be a lengthy and difficult ordeal for patients.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
He credits his family and friends for helping him through his ordeal.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
For decades, the ordeal was a family taboo, something Lin only learned about later in his life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
She said the ordeal was the latest incident of “regional poisoning of that whole area.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The effect was as if each teacher was being examined by a fierce inspector, and each lesson became an ordeal in which not the pupils but the teachers were being tested.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
In the climatic entry in Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s Icelandic trilogy about a boy’s passage through ordeals on land and sea, the battered young hero takes refuge in a village.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
However, Mr. Starritt keeps his leads center stage and ensures that throughout their professional trials and personal ordeals they remain captivating presences and sympathetic enough to root for.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Passengers touching down at airports in Australia, France, Germany, India, Russia, Taiwan and beyond told of sleepless nights and days-long ordeals to get out of the Middle East when war erupted.
From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026
The ordeals, great and small, that the shutdown had triggered for many Americans will end.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025
The intruder was weak from his ordeals and winded from the climb, and it took little effort to subdue him.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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