excruciations

plural of excruciation

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for excruciations
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
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
Noun
  • Customer service woes due to overuse of AI.
    Peter Cohan, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Despite the dramatic implications of the film’s title, Erupcja has a casual, slice-of-life vibe to it that prevents Bethany and Rob’s woes from teetering into melodrama.
    Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Excruciations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excruciations. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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