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[payn] / peɪn /






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Angina is chest pain or discomfort typically caused by insufficient blood flow to the heart muscle.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

She said the youth delegation's visit on Saturday was an expression of "solidarity and our feeling of shock and pain."

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

Much of the recent stock-market pain has been centered around technology stocks.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026

"Listening to her repeatedly asking for help and sometimes screaming in pain has left me with a feeling of hopelessness," said Graham.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Sometimes as I bent to lift a load my heart cramped strangely; at night spasms of pain gripped my legs.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

“The fact that it is necessary pains me as a former American official. But the French have come a long way.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

When Caroline Bailey was suffering with sharp, stabbing pains in her stomach, she thought it was being caused by her contraceptive coil.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Most of Mekelle's stores remained shuttered on Sunday, with several business owners taking pains to hide their stocks from Thursday as the federal forces drew closer.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

The daughter of another medbed believer recalled her mother’s words: We won’t have those aches and pains anymore; your dad’s heart will be better.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

I could not make out the face of the mother who rested from the pains of birth, but I could see the old woman in black who tended the just-arrived, steaming baby.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

At one point, she appears pained by a television report on the Vietnam War, showing a self-immolating monk; her unhappiness about becoming a mother is also offered as a plausible explanation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The actors speak quietly, as if fearful of being overheard, whether or not there is anyone around to hear, and often regard one another with pained or stunned expressions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

He was pained and frightened: He’d never seen such a thing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

"We are deeply pained by the accident...which has preliminarily left more than 38 people injured and 3 dead," Popayan mayor Juan Carlos Munoz wrote on X.

From Barron's ● May 4, 2026

She smiled ever so fleetingly, as if pained by the exercise.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord

A second person said: "The bolt challenge is paining me because it’s innocent and hardworking people on both sides that are suffering for the wickedness and thoughtlessness of other people. Really unfair."

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2024

“She can feel pain, and she starts crying, saying, ‘It is here and it is rising and it is paining here and here.'”

From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2024

“Oh, it was a hurting, paining feeling going through my heart to know that something like that would happen on this street.”

From Fox News ● Aug. 10, 2019

Your silhouette appears on the paining, sometimes surrounded by a glowing aura.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2019

She put her hand on her throat and scrunched up her face like something was paining her.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan


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