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torture chamber

NOUN
dungeon
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As it stands, the predictor has them playing Mexico on Tuesday - a shot at redemption or another trip to a torture chamber?

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026

She said she remembered the first day of administering doses to children between the ages of 5 and 11 sounded like an “echo torture chamber with Disney music loudly infused amongst the clinic.”

From Washington Times • Dec. 31, 2022

"It’s been a little bit of a torture chamber," Bassitt said.

From Fox News • Sep. 23, 2021

We could make much more money with this film if we did the “heroes and villains” version of Garrard’s story, if we made Love in Action out to be this torture chamber.

From Washington Post • Nov. 8, 2018

When you have a lot of hard classes, one after the other, getting out of school at the end of the day is like getting out of a torture chamber or something.

From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers




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