suffering
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The daughter, who is pregnant, and mother, suffering severe ankle swelling, both needed medical attention but had no idea how to get help.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
Ihor’s duty as an emergency police officer also allows the story a broader view, beyond the claustrophobic suffering assembled at the theater.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
Investigators believe that the kind of slip Jonathan describes his father as suffering would have been unlikely in the spot where the fall happened.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
He said it had been a quarter of a century of suffering for both of them.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
Of all the world’s errors, he seemed to feel, the most fundamental was the “erasing” of people, the “hiding away” of suffering.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Vocabulary lists containing suffering
Because of Winn-Dixie
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"The Young American" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The House of Hades
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