torture

In cases where Washington is barred from sending people home -- after US judges found they likely face torture or persecution, for example -- it has sent deportees to "third countries" such as Ghana.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

"No person should be returned to a place where they face persecution, torture or serious threats to their dignity and safety," said Oliver Barker-Vormawor, senior partner at Ghanaian law firm Merton & Everett LLP.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

“For decades, the United States has allowed individuals and families who are fleeing persecution, torture and death to ask for protection at U.S. borders.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

Al Amin says he and his wife still torture themselves, thinking that their daughter may have picked up the virus in the hospital.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

The path was well maintained and just steep enough to feel like healthful exercise rather than some kind of obsessive torture.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

Open is often regarded as the most challenging of the four majors, and there isn’t a host that tortures the world’s best players quite like Shinnecock.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

Yet, Paltrow makes it look like easy lifting, as if dodging the universe’s cerebral tortures were as low-effort as the #BoyfriendBreakfasts she’s taken to posting on Instagram.

From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2025

“Have the merciless persecutions and unutterable tortures of the dark ages not yet opened their eyes and enlarged their heart for the alleviation of their fellow men’s woes?”

From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2025

I left them, so that’s what tortures me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025

El Jefe’s gaze is withdrawing further and further into some back room of his mind where he tortures meaning out of the words he hears.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

Decades of tortured relations between Iran, its Middle Eastern neighbours and the US have left behind a toxic legacy, characterised by deep suspicion and an almost total lack of trust.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

For a country with a tortured history of developing players to lead the attack, Balogun had emerged as the weapon America was waiting for.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Woodall turns in a star-making performance as this tortured, taciturn character who doesn’t talk much, though his tattoos say a lot.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

Warren Buffett had a tortured relationship with airline investments as the conglomerate’s long-running chief executive and stock picker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

Had he been as tortured by it as me?

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings

They also needed a city that would prepare them for a World Cup of midsummer heat waves—without torturing them in the meantime.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

It can be a year away, and it’s right here torturing me, which is I think why I’m a bit of a commitment-phobe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

India's batters are torturing England in this series.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025

“I do not believe that the U.S government is torturing or using these devices on its own citizens,” Zaid explained on the podcast.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2024

The memories swirled, silver white and strange, and without hesitating, with a feeling of reckless abandonment, as though this would assuage his torturing grief, Harry dived.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling