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Recent Examples of excruciate Among other problems the inspection report listed: One resident with a fractured pelvis spent hours in excruciating pain because workers didn’t get the person medications. oregonlive, 24 Apr. 2020 Sometimes their grandchildren are excruciated and appalled by what’s meant to be lightly funny. Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020 One poor woman is left in excruciating pain for 24 hours, and Meredith’s ex-boyfriend Andrew DeLuca (Giacomo Gianniotti) accuses the relative of a patient of being a human trafficker. Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 20 Mar. 2020 As part of that process, said Dr. Barbot, a person is asked in excruciating detail to account for their time in 15-minute intervals. Melanie Grayce West, WSJ, 2 Feb. 2020 See all Example Sentences for excruciate 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for excruciate
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  • The snacking giant, part of PepsiCo., will run a minute-long Super Bowl commercial for its flagship Lay’s that will try to do for potatoes in the Big Game what Budweiser has done for Clydesdale horses and Chrysler did for an American plagued by recession.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The Weeknd, real name Abel Tesfaye, plays a musician plagued by insomnia and facing an emotional breakdown in the official trailer for the suspense thriller Hurry Up Tomorrow, the first feature film from the pop star set for a May 16 theatrical release.
    Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • However, the camp also claimed the lives of many Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war, LGBTQ individuals, and others persecuted under Nazi racial ideology.
    Joel Thayer, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Long persecuted minority The predominately Muslim Uyghurs are a distinct ethnic minority from Xinjiang, a massive, nominally autonomous region in the far west of China.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN, 22 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • In France, one child is afflicted [by violence] every three minutes.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 11 Feb. 2025
  • View 1 Images There could be new hope for people afflicted with the skin-discoloring disease, vitiligo.
    Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 9 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • She was said to have tortured hundreds of girls and women and bathe in the blood of her victims, though the veracity of these claims have been questioned by historians.
    Hannah Malach, WWD, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Protests against the Assad regime spread quickly in the spring of that year after a group of children were arrested and tortured for writing anti-regime graffiti on walls in the city of Deraa.
    Eyad Kourdi, CNN, 31 Jan. 2025
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  • The record-breaker might not be done tormenting Bay Area teams.
    Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Yet keeping his romantic life in the closet torments him.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 22 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Earlier this week, President Trump pardoned 1,500 Jan. 6 rioters who had besieged our nation’s capitol.
    DP Opinion, The Denver Post, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Hegseth, who has been besieged with scandals after Trump tapped him to helm the Pentagon, now faces a rocky path to Senate confirmation.
    Avery Lotz, Axios, 23 Jan. 2025

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“Excruciate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excruciate. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.

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