torture
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A Scottish activist who has spent eight years in "arbitrary detention" in India is enduring "a form of psychological torture", United Nations experts have said.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
For Maisie Adam, taking part - and crucially trying not to crack - in Last One Laughing was "absolute torture".
From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026
After the crackdown in January, Sheikhi fled to the autonomous Kurdistan region in Iraq, fearing arrest and torture back home, where the moustached, bespectacled man had been no stranger to anti-government protests.
From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026
For other kinds of travelers, that sounds like torture.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026
For one thing, he was not anxious to prolong his own torture, by keeping the Queen under his roof, whom he loved and could not have.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Vocabulary lists containing torture
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act III
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