torture
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Israel's government has rejected accusations of widespread ill-treatment and torture of detainees, and insisted that it is fully committed to international legal standards.
From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026
Giving examples of his office's work, Turk said it supported 67,000 survivors of torture and modern slavery, documented tens of thousands of human rights violations and exposed discrimination in more than 100 countries.
From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026
Well, according to those memos, not only is it not torture, it’s not illegal.
From Slate • Feb. 3, 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
It looked like some awful torture table, with these metal stirrups sticking up in mid-air at one end and all sorts of instruments and wires and tubes I couldn't make out properly at the other.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
Vocabulary lists containing torture
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act III
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