as in plagued
to cause persistent suffering to
she has long been excruciated by an undiagnosed pain in her knee
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However, the Memphis Police Department has disputed the narrative that the city is plagued by crime.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
15 Oct. 2025 -
Located across a causeway from downtown Miami and overlooking Biscayne Bay, the park was beloved by those who grew up visiting the landmark, but plagued by persistent animal welfare complaints.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
14 Oct. 2025
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The Lakers were down LeBron James, afflicted by nerve pain.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
13 Oct. 2025
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The narrative takes a darker turn when a family member becomes supernaturally afflicted after witnessing a death, prompting a desperate search for spiritual intervention.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
9 Oct. 2025
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In Nazi Germany, transgender people were persecuted, barred from public life.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
15 Oct. 2025
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This Committee was initially created during the McCarthy Era, a dark time when the federal government repressed and persecuted American citizens for their political beliefs.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
1 Oct. 2025
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Donnelly, meanwhile, recalled on the witness stand how he was repeatedly drowned, tortured and raped by Gacy, per court documents.—
Lynsey Eidell,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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In Elordi’s hands, the creature is a sensitive soul tortured by his own existence.—
Lindsey Bahr,
Boston Herald,
17 Oct. 2025
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Since its municipal establishment in 2018, Roku City has been a metropolis intermittently besieged by mythical creatures including a kraken, a big robot, and a Godzilla-like kaiju.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
14 Oct. 2025
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She is besieged on all sides—by her in-laws, by social workers, by untreated psychosis—and yet in possession of a terrible freedom.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
8 Oct. 2025
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Behind closed doors, network execs cursed the growing power, and seeming lack of accountability, of streamers, while many of those at Netflix, YouTube, Prime Video and their kin still saw their linear counterparts as dinosaurs nearing extinction.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
12 Oct. 2025
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From childhood, this history was offered to Tommy by his father as proof that the men in their family were cursed and that everyone else in Dalton was out to get them.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Excruciated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excruciated. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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