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Users were plunged into their own sleepless, tormented isolation and symptoms of profound mental illness.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 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

They moved on to the titular boxer in "Creed," tormented by his father's legacy, and the villainous Killmonger of "Black Panther," traumatized by being an orphan in a racist world.

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 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

She tormented herself with a thousand words of the same sort But what she felt to herself, in the uncharted regions of her heart, was a different matter.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White




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