torture
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Julio was sitting in the PT room, in a chair amid all the torture equipment, grimacing into the phone like he was the one being tortured.
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He has written about a college course devoted to Taylor Swift, a pickle mascot that went missing and retail workers who said they were tortured by Mariah Carey’s Christmas song.
Many people come to the border seeking asylum, a formal process under which eligible migrants ask the government for legal protections after fleeing places where they believe they would be persecuted or tortured upon returning.
It had been absolute torture to not give away the secret for nine whole months as he saved up, but the look on George’s face was totally worth it.
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I wasn’t sure if it was because of the tortured bird roosting atop my aunt’s bonnet, or my uncommon costume—or if it was because they’d never met lady detectives before.
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