torture
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Corporate retreats are generally assumed to be torture, or at least a semi-stressful chore, what with their forced-fun activities and hybrid work-play environments that leave workers confused about boundaries.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
After the crackdown in January, Sheikhi fled to the autonomous Kurdistan region in Iraq, fearing arrest and torture back home, where the moustached, bespectacled man had been no stranger to anti-government protests.
From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026
He’s not saying that immigrants always have to be believed when they say they fear torture or persecution in a certain country.
From Slate • Feb. 28, 2026
The fund, now imperiled, helps survivors recover from torture in the U.S. and around the world.
From Salon • Jan. 7, 2026
It looked like some awful torture table, with these metal stirrups sticking up in mid-air at one end and all sorts of instruments and wires and tubes I couldn't make out properly at the other.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
Vocabulary lists containing torture
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act III
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