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Now she simply wanted the ordeal to end.

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Finding an affordable place to live in New York City is an ordeal, but it doesn’t have to be as bad as it is.

Like hundreds of thousands of others who lived along the coast of Tohoku, Ryoichi was at the start of what would be a long, terrifying ordeal.

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The seven-time world champion, whose splashy move to Ferrari last winter had been a childhood fantasy, called the whole ordeal a “nightmare.”

His return closes an agonising 11-year ordeal that haunted both his family and the nation.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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