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torture chamber

NOUN
dungeon
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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

Down on the mezzanine level of its giant warehouse building, OXO maintains a torture chamber for kitchenware, a workshop to fulfill the company’s need for incessant product testing.

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2022

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

From Fox News • Sep. 23, 2021

Even the most luxurious car cabin is a torture chamber for sound systems.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2019

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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