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throes

noun as in agony

noun as in labor

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Silver’s subsequent disappearance and the bombing death of his business partner, Holly Lewis, reveals the pair was in the throes of selling a small fortune in bitcoin.

And second, broadcast television, including and especially late night, has been in its death throes for more than a decade.

In the throes of what now feels like a systematic assault on our way of life in multiethnic American urban centers, not merely targeting the “the worst of the worst” but anyone with brown skin.

However, despair is not the final throes of this institution.

Legal scholars argue we’re in the throes of a constitutional crisis.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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