unbearable
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India faces challenging heatwaves each year, but few places endure conditions as searing as the country's western desert salt pans, where workers rely on simple techniques to survive almost unbearable temperatures.
From Barron's • May 10, 2026
When Enkidu dies—and we know, from the moment of his creation from clay, that he must—the epic contracts around the fact of mortality with an almost unbearable pressure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
Jade Boden-de Mel first experienced "unbearable" pain at 17 but says medics could not identify the cause and prescribed the contraceptive pill to manage it.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
Not an iota of care for Mathew Shurka, “an amicus who received conversion therapy as a child,” who is a living example of the unbearable price paid for framing talk therapy as nothing but speech.
From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026
Mrs. van Daan’s constant griping is unbearable; now that she can no longer drive us crazy with the invasion, she moans and groans all day about the bad weather.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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Vocabulary lists containing unbearable
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 12–15
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