tormented
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Meanwhile, she’s tormented by the knowledge that Hadley was only 20 or so paces from the safety of the Mystic commissary, if only she’d left her cabin.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
Most of the unhappy denizens of Dante’s imagined hell are being eternally tormented for specific moral crimes in categories covering lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery.
From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026
Arsenal midfielder Eberechi Eze tormented Tottenham again as his double revived the Premier League leaders' title bid in a 4-1 rout of their north London rivals on Sunday.
From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026
The court was told that McGuckin was "tormented by the screams" of Aaron's grandmother who came to the scene shortly after the collision.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026
The purple mohawk was long gone, but Sydney still felt like the same person who’d tormented the faculty at Wallangarra.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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