torment
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Still, Messinger, 85 years old, described the same torment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
They added that since the fatal crash, they "have lived every day since then in torment — without peace, without answers, and without accountability".
From BBC • May 1, 2026
Ahmed provides his haunted, intelligent eyes to convey the inner torment of this Hamlet, the grieving scion of a wealthy family of real estate developers.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
Racked with torment over her proximity to evil, Hilda makes a desperate confession to a Catholic priest, who happens to be a New Englander.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
Just beneath the crust lay a twenty-foot stratum of the same quicksand Chicago builders always confronted, only now it was ice cold and a torment to workers.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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