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anguish

noun as in severe upset or pain

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“You want the scene to emotionally take you to a high point. And when you can’t express that joy or that euphoria in any other way, you break into song. The same is true the other way. You go down to the depths of despair, and in that moment of pain and that moment of anguish, singing is the only way to express how you feel.”

Sophie Blake, who was diagnosed with stage four secondary breast cancer in May 2022, says she wants new rules to allow people to medically end their own life to protect families from the anguish of seeing their loved ones suffer "needlessly".

From BBC

Guardiola had already been perching anxiously on one knee, his face wreathed in anguish, well before Joao Pedro's 77th-minute equaliser started the Brighton comeback that inflicted a fourth successive defeat, City’s first such sequence since 2006.

From BBC

He agrees that making it a safer, more personalized, and guided experience would help relieve a lot of anguish he sees in his clients.

From Slate

Her release ignited anguish among family members, who believed a mental evaluation or psychiatric hold should have been required.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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