pangs

Example Sentences

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In a free society, there is no right to be shielded from information that might cause pangs of doubt.

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026

The 14-year-old first felt the pangs of online addiction in the days after the ban started.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026

"We are suffering the pangs of growth because India knows how to handle poverty, not prosperity."

From Barron's • Nov. 27, 2025

Yet in examining what at first look like gestures of Chinese geoeconomic supremacy, one detects pangs of worry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

A color photograph of Harry headed a short piece entitled: SfCarry potter’s Ofecret SFCeartacfie A boy like no other, perhaps —- yet a boy suffering all the usual pangs of adolescence, writes Rita Skeeter.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling