torture
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Amnesty International, which is supporting the couple, says they could face a "real risk" of detention, prosecution, imprisonment and torture if returned.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Citizenship and Immigration Services — as a cause for hope, while others saw it as prolonged mental torture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
And yet, this villain’s fiery domain, where imps torture souls nearby, is also recognizably Dionysian.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
But in Rogers’ case, Trump opted not to torture him over his history of negative comments.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
Why do we have to go through this torture every time we want to go out?
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
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This involves choosing a patron saint, and Michael speaks with the wild enthusiasm of a Marvel movie fanboy about his likely decision, St. George, who endures various grisly tortures but remains steadfast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Yet, Paltrow makes it look like easy lifting, as if dodging the universe’s cerebral tortures were as low-effort as the #BoyfriendBreakfasts she’s taken to posting on Instagram.
From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2025
“Have the merciless persecutions and unutterable tortures of the dark ages not yet opened their eyes and enlarged their heart for the alleviation of their fellow men’s woes?”
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2025
I left them, so that’s what tortures me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025
Aristotle names five of them: laws, witnesses, contracts, tortures, and oaths.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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Last weekend, a "Saturday Night Live" sketch cast him as a tortured figure, barely masking his dread of AI.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Three Egyptian security officials have been convicted by a Rome court over the kidnapping of an Italian student whose tortured body was found in Cairo a decade ago.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Ah Sing illustrated its tortured central character, Aerius, as a muscled romance book cover star — with a twist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
But inside the brain trusts of Silicon Valley, billions of investor dollars and years of tortured rationalist arguments are clouding a similar argument about artificial intelligence.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
The church was packed with women in black, each one stoically suffering the three hours of the Crucifixion with the tortured Christ.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
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They also needed a city that would prepare them for a World Cup of midsummer heat waves—without torturing them in the meantime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
It can be a year away, and it’s right here torturing me, which is I think why I’m a bit of a commitment-phobe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
She became a vegetarian, attacked the Chinese government for "torturing" bears, and spent hundreds of thousands on a programme to sterilise Romanian stray dogs.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2025
In contrast, most of the concert appearances show Williams torturing himself with crippling self-doubt as voices in his head and visions in the audience tell him that he is no good.
From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2025
Their last defeat was clearly still torturing him.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act III
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