unendurable
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After her parents’ divorce, when she was 9, her childhood was marked by nearly unendurable feelings of isolation and low self-esteem.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
Paola Marra, who had terminal bowel cancer, died on Wednesday at the Swiss clinic - where people with illnesses leading to death, or unendurable pain or disability, can end their life.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2024
Her characters might suffer from a great many maladies but none more soul-draining than aesthetic poverty, none more unendurable than grayscale lives.
From Scientific American • Apr. 29, 2022
Cassie’s refusal to forget is more threatening: a constant, unendurable rebuke to those around her.
From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2020
It was different from the larger feelings that still racked his body: the searing agony in his arms and hands, the almost unendurable ulceration of his parched mouth, the feverish pounding of his head.
From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry
Vocabulary lists containing unendurable
The Giver
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