suffering
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Whether it’s enough to keep Djokovic training, suffering and sacrificing is unclear.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
But her lawyer argues she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time, and therefore could not distinguish right from wrong.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
"Only a lifelong prison sentence does justice to the immense suffering that has been inflicted on the victims and the bereaved families," the court said.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Matthew Caldwell, an undrafted free agent from Texas, started the second half and played into the fourth quarter before suffering an apparent injury.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
It was a low, whimpering cry and sounded like a small animal suffering.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Researchers have increasingly linked such sufferings to heavy social media use among adolescents.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
The letter did not spare the absent father the grim truth: “Her sufferings were great.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
The committee praised his policy of non-violence, which it called "all the more remarkable when it is considered in relation to the sufferings inflicted on the Tibetan people".
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
He reminded Americans that they had “in a common cause fought and triumphed together. The independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts—of common dangers, sufferings, and successes.”
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2025
Such was my sentence, and on that night would the dæmon employ every art to destroy me and tear me from the glimpse of happiness which promised partly to console my sufferings.
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
Vocabulary lists containing suffering
Because of Winn-Dixie
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"The Young American" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The House of Hades
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