pain
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Ectopic pregnancy symptoms often begin with abdominal pain and bleeding, which send women to emergency rooms.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system mistakenly attacks tissue around the joints, causing pain, swelling, stiffness, and potentially long-term damage.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
Now, Carney was accelerating Canada’s pivot to Europe, matchmaking a shotgun marriage to offset the pain of its divorce with America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Lowrimore visited three different hospitals across both states over the following week as she began passing blood clots and the pain intensified, radiating up the left side of her body, according to the lawsuit.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
It was the only sign he gave of being in pain.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
The team, in conversation with Ohtani, failed to manage his workload and aches and pains in a way that would be sustainable for more of the year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
She is in her late 70s and complains of nagging aches and pains, neuropathy, fatigue, anxiety, and occasional changes in her weight.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
Elissa says she has gone to hospital several times with chest pains that medics have attributed to "stress".
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
"I realised everything it had cost me -- all those hospitalisations, those surgeries, the schooling I missed and, above all, those pains I had never associated with that damn IUD," said Kirstine Najarak Berthelsen.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
They were men and women like them, with straight hair and dark skin, who spoke the same language and complained of the same pains.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The actors speak quietly, as if fearful of being overheard, whether or not there is anyone around to hear, and often regard one another with pained or stunned expressions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
"I want to give my son a dignified burial. I am deeply pained."
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Coincidentally or not, that pained study of marital dissolution, co-starring Jolie’s then-husband Brad Pitt, intersected with the couple’s real-life breakup — not to mention Jolie’s grief over the death of her mother, Marcheline Bertrand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
In doing a television interview in the aftermath, Lewis Ferguson looked pained and upset.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
In the pained silence after Kaisha stopped reading, he cleared his throat loudly.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
A second person said: "The bolt challenge is paining me because it’s innocent and hardworking people on both sides that are suffering for the wickedness and thoughtlessness of other people. Really unfair."
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2024
“She can feel pain, and she starts crying, saying, ‘It is here and it is rising and it is paining here and here.'”
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2024
“Oh, it was a hurting, paining feeling going through my heart to know that something like that would happen on this street.”
From Fox News ● Aug. 10, 2019
Your silhouette appears on the paining, sometimes surrounded by a glowing aura.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2019
It was Frank’s bad leg that woke him; it was paining him worse than ever in his old age.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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