anguishes 1 of 2

plural of anguish

anguishes

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verb

present tense third-person singular of anguish
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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for anguishes
Noun
  • To investors, such progress offers ample reasons to overlook short-term pains like the company’s dip in profitability, says Wang.
    Yue Wang, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • The editorial takes pains to quote the school board, the board president and the Illinois Policy Institute, a right-wing and anti-labor organization, without any quotes from the association or its president.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Everything that plagues Chicago also plagues America.
    Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
  • This temporary fix does nothing to resolve the chronic underfunding and instability that plagues these programs year after year.
    DP Opinion, Denver Post, 6 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • As the family grieves, the community is rallying around them.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • My heart aches knowing such a beautiful soul was taken from us too soon.
    KC Baker, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Symptoms, which can develop up to 14 days after exposure, include cough, fever, chills, headaches, muscle aches, and shortness of breath.
    Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Measles is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease caused by a virus that primarily, and most severely, afflicts children.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Although there have been recent breakthroughs in the treatment of Alzheimer’s, no medication has succeeded in stopping or reversing the disease that afflicts more than 7 million Americans, a number projected to reach almost 13 million by 2050, according to the Alzheimer’s Association.
    The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Rather than taking the newcomers in, Friedrich leads them to some distant caves and trusts that the miseries of island life—extreme heat, torrential rains, pesky insects, vicious dogs—will soon send them packing.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The reductive, conventional wisdom in the party held that nonwhite voters, especially Hispanic Americans, would be the key to a new Democratic national majority after the party’s miseries in the post-9/11 world.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • More news to know now Lisbon, Portugal, mourns 17 victims of a funicular crash.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Family mourns loss of father and child R’mani Sibley was an elementary school student in Crowley, according to her family.
    Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Mar. 2025
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“Anguishes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anguishes. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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