pain
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“Its deeply distressing to know that Ruben’s final moments were consumed by confusion, fear, pain and disregard for his life,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Some users experience abdominal pain and spasms, or "K cramps" too.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
If this man of deep faith dies in a Hong Kong prison, his family will bear the deepest pain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
The good news is a little planning now, using proven tax strategies for the wealthy, can prevent much pain later.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
I slid out of bed, wincing at the pain in my sides.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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The daughter of another medbed believer recalled her mother’s words: We won’t have those aches and pains anymore; your dad’s heart will be better.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
It also demonstrated that while Maye amazed the football world last season, he’s still just 24 years old and prone to growing pains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
"I realised everything it had cost me -- all those hospitalisations, those surgeries, the schooling I missed and, above all, those pains I had never associated with that damn IUD," said Kirstine Najarak Berthelsen.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
California has taken pains to eliminate coal as a source of electricity, and this would be the first coal export terminal in California — or anywhere on the West Coast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
“Be assured, sir,” said he, “no pains or exertions on my part shall be spared to discover the villain.”
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
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When I was in second grade, during a parent teacher conference, my teacher was pained to tell my mother that her son would never learn to read.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
“It’s very frustrating,” Doncic said between Games 1 and 2, standing with his hands in his pockets, pained to report that he wasn’t close to returning, five weeks into his eight-week return-to-work timeline.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2026
Kurlender said it pained him to see hundreds of thousands of south Lebanese displaced from their villages just minutes away, but thought that Israel's military offensive was necessary.
From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026
"Again?" he asks, the pained expression on his face reflecting the troubling news he's just heard.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026
In the pained silence after Kaisha stopped reading, he cleared his throat loudly.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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A second person said: "The bolt challenge is paining me because it’s innocent and hardworking people on both sides that are suffering for the wickedness and thoughtlessness of other people. Really unfair."
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2024
“She can feel pain, and she starts crying, saying, ‘It is here and it is rising and it is paining here and here.'”
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2024
“Oh, it was a hurting, paining feeling going through my heart to know that something like that would happen on this street.”
From Fox News ● Aug. 10, 2019
Your silhouette appears on the paining, sometimes surrounded by a glowing aura.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2019
Tica massaged her back, which was clearly paining her.
From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis
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