excruciating
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Teenage athlete Dennis Castillo spent 28 excruciating hours trapped under the rubble in quake-hit Venezuela, with a beam crushing her left leg as she waited to be rescued.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Sam experienced one bout of excruciating pain a week after the procedure, a known but uncommon side effect of vasectomies according to Dr Salkeld, but that subsided after a few hours.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Plus, this excruciating level of oversight likely isn’t personal, says Tessa West, a psychology professor at New York University and the author of “Jerks at Work: Toxic Coworkers and What to Do About Them.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
It was “an excruciating experience,” one person present said, and a signal how little influence America’s closest allies, even traveling as a collective, exerted with the administration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
At least ten excruciating minutes passed with nothing changing.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
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