tormented
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Having tormented North Macedonia, he allowed them off the hook, but he was a one-man thrill-fest.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Omar Marmoush: Debutant was quickly parachuted into starting line-up, having tormented Newcastle so many times before with Manchester City.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
In painful detail, she described the splitting headaches, body aches, chills, high fevers and hallucinations that had tormented her for days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Tell me, Christopher Nolan, when did it first rosy-fingered dawn on you that your favorite type of protagonist — a tormented sinner-hero — was a specialty of the ancient Greeks?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
I could still see the tormented faces shimmering in the fabric I walked to the edge of the river.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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