pangs
Example Sentences
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In a free society, there is no right to be shielded from information that might cause pangs of doubt.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 2026
The 14-year-old first felt the pangs of online addiction in the days after the ban started.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026
"We are suffering the pangs of growth because India knows how to handle poverty, not prosperity."
From Barron's ● Nov. 27, 2025
Yet in examining what at first look like gestures of Chinese geoeconomic supremacy, one detects pangs of worry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
They ate meals without water or soup, under the theory that liquid accelerated digestion and quickened the return of hunger pangs.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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