hurt
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“It’s gonna hurt me or it’s gonna hurt them, right?” he said of his customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
It also doesn’t hurt to help your mother establish a system that works well.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
The mother of a teenage boy who died in hospital has said she is "deeply concerned and hurt" after learning his medical records may have been accessed inappropriately for years after his death.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Brown hurt and the rest of the receivers only mildly threatening, the pressure is on Drake Maye to deliver.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Now they were so near they hurt our ears.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Barring that, it never hurts to channel Helen Lovejoy from “The Simpsons”: You won’t go broke thinking about how we should all think of the children.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
It’s like two friends: If you must do something that hurts your friend, you tell him first and try to minimize the cost—that’s how friends forgive each other.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Determining these factors was mostly beyond the scope of my brief — but it never hurts to speculate a bit.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Of course, it just hurts more, the fact that I lose a win.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
It hurts to hear those words, and it’s hard to hold my head high.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
And in a just world, that’s where this would have started and ended: Cramer living in the boundaries of his fun, space-loving subculture, meditating in the Martian desert landscapes of Sedona, not hurting anyone.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
To his thinking, “the 10-year would surge solidly above 5.00%,” hurting markets.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Playing primarily from the left, he has given Flick another way of hurting opponents.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
They are still hurting, still missing the loved ones they lost, and they must surely be forever on alert for similar devastations that could come and upend their lives again.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
So I put my remarks aside and tried to reach into my hurting heart for something to say.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
