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  • present tense form of pain (3rd person singular).
  • plural of pain.
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Police scanner audio obtained by news outlets showed emergency responders arriving at Graham’s Capitol Hill home on Saturday around 8:30 p.m. for a report of chest pains; CPR was underway roughly 25 minutes later.

From Salon Jul. 13, 2026

JPMorgan took pains to test the model to only use information available on that date.

From MarketWatch Jul. 13, 2026

The police and FBI took pains to stress that Long was not a suspect in the LaGuardia bombing.

From Slate Jul. 7, 2026

This avian bystander may have recognized a fellow bird of prey in Coriolanus, whose role in the Roman ecosystem is necessary yet not fit for all purposes in a young democracy beset with growing pains.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

I was just moving my hand over to see if I had sharp pains there, where Calista said, when I saw the look on her face, and I stopped.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff




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