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throes

noun as in agony

noun as in labor

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In the throes of what now feels like a systematic assault on our way of life in multiethnic American urban centers, not merely targeting the “the worst of the worst” but anyone with brown skin.

However, despair is not the final throes of this institution.

Legal scholars argue we’re in the throes of a constitutional crisis.

From Salon

Could the wantaway Swede really have been reintegrated if he did not get the move he desired in the final throes of the window?

From BBC

Rather than giving up, after having two previous bids rejected, Newcastle returned to the table in the final throes of the window.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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