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Instead of wrapping the series up after this gut-wrenching realization, The Eternaut ends on a massive cliffhanger.—Caroline Blair, People.com, 6 May 2025 The film was partly inspired by Holofcener’s own life as the divorced mother of two teenagers, which lends it a particularly gut-wrenching kind of verisimilitude.—Marley Marius, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2025 Image The most gut-wrenching images fueled an antiwar movement that considered the war unwinnable and unjust.—The New York Times, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025 The Detroit Pistons just suffered a gut-wrenching Game 3 loss at the hands of the New York Knicks, putting them in a 1-2 hole for the series.—Mat Issa, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gut-wrenching
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