pain
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The condition can be painful and make swallowing difficult, and it can cause chest pain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
He pays about $400 a month in HOA fees and plans to move next year, but is aware that selling will be a pain.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Patients with irritable bowel syndrome who took an experimental GLP-1 drug reported relief of acute pain and those with knee osteoarthritis and obesity have less knee pain though that can’t be separated from weight loss.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The pain of it touched every community in the land.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
I slid out of bed, wincing at the pain in my sides.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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So, does that mean Ohtani feels like he could be more up-front with the team about his physical well-being, regardless of whether he thinks he can play through aches and pains?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
Hillary wasn’t Bill; her 2008 campaign took pains to emphasize their differences.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
"I realised everything it had cost me -- all those hospitalisations, those surgeries, the schooling I missed and, above all, those pains I had never associated with that damn IUD," said Kirstine Najarak Berthelsen.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
It’s the depth of the meaning people find in life when they confront those types of unspeakable sorrows and pains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
One was a gargantuan man standing beside Duke Perrington, who seemed crafted of muscle and steel—and took pains to display it with his sleeveless armor.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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Coincidentally or not, that pained study of marital dissolution, co-starring Jolie’s then-husband Brad Pitt, intersected with the couple’s real-life breakup — not to mention Jolie’s grief over the death of her mother, Marcheline Bertrand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
When I was in second grade, during a parent teacher conference, my teacher was pained to tell my mother that her son would never learn to read.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 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
As the memory of it washes back over you, “Omaha” lingers, like a devastating short story — devastating because it’s about a pained father for whom the road ahead only seems to get narrower.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
Thinking of those notes in invisible milk ink might have made Penelope smile had she not felt so pained about disappointing Miss Mortimer.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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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
It was Frank’s bad leg that woke him; it was paining him worse than ever in his old age.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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