throes
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“I was able to go back to X-Men land and destroy New Jersey, effortlessly,” he says proudly, raising his hands like Magneto in the throes of power.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
He now finds himself facing a daunting new challenge: Helming one of the country’s top law firms in its throes of an identity crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
“We are in the throes of a real possibility of making a deal,” Trump told reporters Monday.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2026
Cuba is in the throes of its worst economic crisis in decades, marked by power outages of up to 20 hours a day and critical shortages of fuel, medicines and food.
From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026
He said this when we were in the throes of sickness on the Agnes Pauline, and again in the bitter first winter in New York, when four of us, including Mam, came down with pneumonia.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 19–24
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100 SAT Words Beginning with "T"
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