- present participle of suffer.
suffering
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Kim made her first public appearance since suffering from the cardiac arrest in July 2024, when she attended the Bills’ training camp practice alongside her husband.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
US Senator Mitch McConnell says he will not be returning to the Senate "quite yet" after suffering from a fall and "a mild case of pneumonia".
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Sen. Lindsey Graham, the prominent Republican from South Carolina who served in the Senate for more than two decades, died after suffering an aortic dissection, his office said Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
WASHINGTON—Emergency responders sent to Sen. Lindsey Graham’s home Saturday night performed CPR on an individual suffering from cardiac arrest, according to dispatch audio reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Kermit, who was not only suffering from insect bites but also from another outbreak of boils, still managed to help.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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Dame Sarah said the Pope's message "reminded us that despite our sufferings, people long for life in all its fullness and countless people are working each day for this vision of the common good".
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
Researchers have increasingly linked such sufferings to heavy social media use among adolescents.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
The poet finds no comfort in his grief because, in Hardy’s view, the universe is indifferent to our sufferings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Coon: It’s meaningful that Mike set this season in Thailand, in a Buddhist country, because, of course, if you look at the tenets of Buddhism, one of the great sufferings is comparing mind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2025
Such was my sentence, and on that night would the dæmon employ every art to destroy me and tear me from the glimpse of happiness which promised partly to console my sufferings.
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
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