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suffering

[suhf-er-ing, suhf-ring] / ˈsʌf ər ɪŋ, ˈsʌf rɪŋ /


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The vaccine lowers the chance of getting either strain of mpox, and of suffering from severe illness if infected.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

The software industry has suffering through a months-long stock slump, as investors have feared that AI agents threaten to displace the need for traditional software vendors.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026

You are also suffering from a very modern malady: decision paralysis.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026

Rick Atkinson’s “The British Are Coming,” about the Revolutionary War, is beautifully written and started off with a bang, but soon the accounts of battles, with their obligatory suffering and death, became too much.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

I hated the dismal place full of sick and suffering women, but we had to go back, again and again, for Betsie’s condition was growing worse.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom




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