tortured
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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
Clearly Ms. Footer conceives of Bradley as something of a tortured Romantic; what’s unclear—in fact, what is unknowable—is whether Bradley did himself.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
"Ebola has tortured us," says a taxi rider in his late twenties in the gold-mining town of Rwampara.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
Few embody a tortured, beguiling Americana quite like her.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026
It is as if he was working out some tortured mind game on the page, or distracting himself from an unbearable sadness.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
