throe
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That broken stair, wonky lock, furnace that’s making death throe noises: Remedy problems before tenants move in.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
Ryan Harris found reserves where none seemed to exist to ruffle Pietersen's feathers with consecutive bouncers, and in the same over dismissed Cook, but it proved to be a throe, not a resurgence.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2010
With his customary sense of apocalyptic drama, he declares that "the country was in a throe, a species of eschatological heave."
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus it suggests that society is a prison of the spirit and freedom is the death throe of society: suicidal anarchy.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the first time I noticed—as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next—that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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