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  • present tense form of pain (3rd person singular).
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Adam Ankers, 17, collapsed with chest pains while he was playing for Wycombe Wanderers Foundation's under-19s in January 2024 and later died in hospital, having suffered brain damage.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

For a movie defined by this nowhereness, it’s all the more telling that the filmmakers took pains to let us know exactly where we are.

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026

Inevitably, the Holocaust imbalances this novel, its horrors overshadowing the complex themes and human dramas that Mr. O’Connor had taken pains to create.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Stock investors tend to prefer growing pains to no growth at all, though.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

“As much as it pains me to say this … we’re not going to beat him.”

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer




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