gut-wrenching

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Recent Examples of gut-wrenching However, a special teams disaster was also responsible for Denver’s most gut-wrenching loss of the season. Nick Kosmider, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025 Both teams had another possession but had to punt before Penn State’s gut-wrenching mistake and interception with 30 seconds remaining set up Notre Dame at the Penn State 42-yard line. Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025 Carol remembers overhearing the gut-wrenching phone call between her father and her grandmother. Anna Turning, NBC News, 29 Dec. 2024 The personal nature embedded in the gut-wrenching songs is undeniable, particularly through the lens of his divorce from Sara Lownds. Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 25 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for gut-wrenching 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gut-wrenching
Adjective
  • Friday’s 102-86 setback in Brooklyn - marked by a gruesome fourth quarter in which Miami was outscored 31-9 – left the Heat at 25-25.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Osgood Perkins is back in his horror bag to bring the short story from Stephen King to the big screen, following twin brothers Bill and Hal, who find their father's old toy monkey in the attic, an event which leads to a series of gruesome deaths.
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
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  • With snipers on rooftops, military vehicles on the streets and troops and cops everywhere, Trump was scheduled to meet with families of those killed and injured in the horrific New Year’s Day attack in NOLA.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 9 Feb. 2025
  • How safe would the thousands be in this city just one month after the horrific attack?
    Scott Thompson, Fox News, 7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The Chiefs’ best WR has been terrific in his last two games, (19 catches, 209 yards, 2 TDs).
    Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Look, Mahomes is terrific when his back is against the wall.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • SpaceX plans to launch a second mission this evening, which wouldn't be shocking — the company has sent two rockets up just hours apart before.
    Josh Dinner, Space.com, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The shocking moment quickly made headlines when Censori, who arrived in a large fur coat, undressed on the spot and posed for the cameras in a completely sheer dress without a bra or underwear underneath.
    Michelle Lee, People.com, 3 Feb. 2025
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  • Meanwhile, Irving spent the night venturing off on his own, falling asleep in the forest with terrifying hallucinations.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 7 Feb. 2025
  • In its place is the Terran Empire, a brutal and colonizing force that encapsulates the terrifying darkness of this alternative world.
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
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  • Just a few generations ago, many young children died from infectious diseases, which are still formidable foes globally.
    Brooke Redmond, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025
  • The formidable musician and actor, a muse to many but so much more than that moniker allows, a style icon, and a megawatt star of the Swinging Sixties—with the coolest eyewear to match.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2025
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  • This is all frightening enough — and as the hearing revealed, his bogus theories about AIDS, Lyme disease, and a slew of other public health issues make clear Kennedy is no friend of facts or science, and therefore should be utterly disqualified from HHS secretary.
    S.E. Cupp, New York Daily News, 29 Jan. 2025
  • The statistics on underage drinking are frightening, and alcohol does cause death and injury.
    TJ Hutchinson, The Denver Post, 28 Jan. 2025
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  • And both situations can, of course, be traced directly to the same source: years of terrible leadership by the commissioners and university presidents that end up hurting the athletes — and passing the cost of doing business onto the fans.
    Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2025
  • But to add to what is at stake, former Chelsea head coach Graham Potter, who struggled to win the crowd over during a terrible seven months in charge in 2022-23, is returning as the opposition’s manager for the first time since he was sacked.
    Simon Johnson, The Athletic, 3 Feb. 2025

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