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pain

[payn] / peɪn /






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They’re also trying to pull this off while the footwear industry is feeling pain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Exercises can also be adapted for people with joint pain or long-term conditions, and support from qualified professionals can help ensure training is safe and appropriate.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

"But at last the immense pain this man inflicted has been acknowledged, he is finally accountable and we can continue to move forward."

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

That’s Fennell’s challenge: When something is hard, and when the pain is gratuitous, don’t turn the other cheek, don’t let the heart-wrenching horror slip away.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

The cub sensed loneliness and uncertainty and pain.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Meta’s announcement of the tool took pains to underline how rock-solid it was.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

But about 40 to 45 minutes into the film, the labour pains began.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

Hillary wasn’t Bill; her 2008 campaign took pains to emphasize their differences.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 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

He took pains to make sure it was straight.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

"I want to give my son a dignified burial. I am deeply pained."

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

When I was in second grade, during a parent teacher conference, my teacher was pained to tell my mother that her son would never learn to read.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

“It’s very frustrating,” Doncic said between Games 1 and 2, standing with his hands in his pockets, pained to report that he wasn’t close to returning, five weeks into his eight-week return-to-work timeline.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2026

But since the pits closed almost four decades ago, residents describe a slow and pained decline as people struggled to get well-paid, stable employment.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026

The thought of being apart from Papá, Mamá, and my brothers and sister saddened me, but the idea of missing school and not being with Roberto pained me even more.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez

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

Roosevelt had more than just hunger paining him.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple




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