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  • present participle of hurt.

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Environmentalists say the wall will accelerate erosion elsewhere while starving the neighboring salt marsh of sediment, hurting wildlife.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 8, 2026

But many also stayed away, hurting from two wars in less than a year, inflation spiralling at around 80%, and the pain of January's anti-government protests.

From BBC • Jul. 7, 2026

Neither were most of them hurting for attention, which is probably why my brain connected those long-ago irritants with this present one.

From Salon • Jul. 3, 2026

This exodus poses a major risk to Agentforce, Salesforce’s enterprise AI platform, by hurting its ability to develop and sell AI products, DiFucci continued.

From Barron's • Jul. 1, 2026

Agent Burger said that the conduct of one of these private detectives was “reprehensible” and was “certainly hurting our investigation.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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