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torment

[tawr-ment, tawr-ment, tawr-ment] / tɔrˈmɛnt, ˈtɔr mɛnt, ˈtɔr mɛnt /




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Still, Messinger, 85 years old, described the same torment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

He is accompanied on his reluctant journey to the finish line with a group of characters who by turns torment and placate him.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

The ordeal eventually led Ms. Müller to emigrate to West Berlin in 1987, a bureaucratic torment that she describes here in deliberately tedious detail, to mirror the experience.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

After the torment of defeat in week one, Scotland are top of the table.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026

And this void, this despair, this torment is felt everywhere in the West, from the streets of Stockholm to the churches of New Orleans and the sidewalks of Harlem.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin




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