tormented
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Corvette, a promising and hard-working designer herself who aspires to Christie’s brilliance, is tormented by nightmares of rich people complaining about the generation who “can’t expect everything to be handed to them.”
From Salon • May 22, 2026
“You know, we’ll be tormented by it for a long time. I will be, and I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people. It was not intentional, and that’s all I’ll say.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
Zac, a “swaggering tormented fabulist,” had invented a back story in a city where money talks and no one speaks about its provenance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
In attack, both Laurens - Hemp and James - impressed as they tormented Iceland's full-backs.
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026
At dinner, an older boy named Vic Morgeroff had tormented Reynie for using the word “enjoyable” to describe the book he was reading.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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