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throe

noun as in pain

Strongest match

agony

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And second, broadcast television, including and especially late night, has been in its death throes for more than a decade.

From Los Angeles Times

In the throes of what now feels like a systematic assault on our way of life in multiethnic American urban centers, not merely targeting the “the worst of the worst” but anyone with brown skin.

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However, despair is not the final throes of this institution.

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Legal scholars argue we’re in the throes of a constitutional crisis.

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Could the wantaway Swede really have been reintegrated if he did not get the move he desired in the final throes of the window?

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