suffer
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Beavis and Butt-head might leave chaos and destruction in their muttering, giggling wake, but they rarely suffer lasting harm themselves.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
The newly appointed chancellor told the paper he would ensure the UK has a solid "buffer against uncertainty" amid the "dangerous" economic environment that has seen the UK and its allies suffer fiscal damage.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Young men, faced with a choice to strive and suffer on behalf of teammates, build virtue not chiefly through deliberation but through action.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The two demonstrators appeared to suffer only minor injuries and neither were Amazon employees, according to Teamsters Local 1932 spokesperson Robert Gonzalez, who was at the walkout.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Furthermore, by not being dependent on any single kind of food, they were less liable to suffer when one particular food source failed.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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Back at his house where he lives with his wife and their four children, he now walks with a limp and says he also suffers from constant headaches.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Over longer horizons, however, the S&P 500 on average barely suffers a hiccup because of first hikes.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
"Sudan suffers the most from weapons and their illegal flow. However, expanding such a sanctions regime will weaken the protection of civilians," said Al-Harith Idriss al-Harith Mohamed.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
He suffers from the two facts that he achieved unique fame for the surgery named for him and he didn’t strike out hitters, he finessed them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
An illustration which isn’t quite so vanilla: Assume a medical clinic tests blood for a certain disease from which approximately one person in a hundred suffers.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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Ever since his first term, when one of “his” red states suffered a natural disaster, he immediately showed sympathy and sent federal relief.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
Sabalenka has been the world number one for the past two years, but has recently suffered a dip of form which leaves her position under severe threat.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Before a near-fatal car crash in the late 1970s, in which he lost one eye and suffered severe facial trauma, he had loved surfing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
The injury, which he suffered last month on the race's eighth stage, means the Slovenian will miss out on the chance to defend his title at the upcoming World Championships.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
She had suffered everything I had and yet she seemed to carry no burden of rage.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Surely it’s a suffering so immense that the only word to really describe it is “biblical.”
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
Five-time Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar will not race again this season after suffering injuries including a neck fracture at the Vuelta a Espana.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Mladic died last week after suffering several strokes while serving a life sentence in The Hague for war crimes committed during the 1990s war in Bosnia.
From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 2026
In medieval Europe, leprosy was seen as a kind of transfigurative suffering: Those with the condition were believed to be so wretched in this life that they were virtually guaranteed respite in the hereafter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
But a good number of ghosts wondered if Ophie could end their suffering.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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