torture

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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

First, the Convention Against Torture—which Congress has implemented into federal law—requires individualized determinations of risk when an immigrant says that they fear torture if deported to a certain country.

From Slate • Feb. 28, 2026

And they’ve done it by unearthing another MVP-caliber quarterback in Drake Maye, who has the potential to torture yet another generation of Jets teams.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

The thought of what Draco Malfoy would say if he had to go to the hospital wing was torture.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling