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unbearable

[uhn-bair-uh-buhl] / ʌnˈbɛər ə bəl /


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I deserve justice, which is why I stand up and face unbearable public scrutiny in the name of a greater good — a world where predators are not in power.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

India faces challenging heatwaves each year, but few places endure conditions as searing as the country's western desert salt pans, where workers rely on simple techniques to survive almost unbearable temperatures.

From Barron's • May 10, 2026

When Enkidu dies—and we know, from the moment of his creation from clay, that he must—the epic contracts around the fact of mortality with an almost unbearable pressure.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Not an iota of care for Mathew Shurka, “an amicus who received conversion therapy as a child,” who is a living example of the unbearable price paid for framing talk therapy as nothing but speech.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026

Her talk followed us in the halls and filled our ears like our little brother’s tom-tom, which is to say, unbearable.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez




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