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ordeal
noun as in trouble, suffering
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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.
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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.”
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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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