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
Eventually they confront Ladd’s greatest pain, a nearly unendurable loss she experienced as a young mother.
From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2023
A: That tension between “I’d have to give up things I enjoy if I ended our friendship” and “our friendship is now mostly unendurable because I don’t want to be around her” is challenging, certainly.
From Slate • Dec. 28, 2020
It was not unendurable, as the pain on the hill had been.
From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry
Vocabulary lists containing unendurable
The Giver
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