tortured
Example Sentences
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Last weekend, a "Saturday Night Live" sketch cast him as a tortured figure, barely masking his dread of AI.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Silver Lake and Icahn already have a tortured history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Ah Sing illustrated its tortured central character, Aerius, as a muscled romance book cover star — with a twist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
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
“I don’t mean that you’re a bad friend or anything. But you’re slightly tortured, and the way you’re tortured is sometimes also painful for, like, everyone around you.”
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
