harrow

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Recent Examples of harrow Before the big race, the track was harrowed, bringing it to a better and drier racing surface. John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2025 The research fellow who met me, Birte, was in her forties, and appeared as if she had been harrowed by her work. John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024 Plus, Shin Ha-young is given little to do in the second half of the series despite her effortless shift from warm third wheel to harrowed and weary abuse victim. Geoffrey Bunting, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2023 That same humble deity, in the course of putting on humanity, had obtained a glimpse of the conditions on earth—poverty, needless estrangement, a stubborn pattern of rich ruling over poor—and decided to incite a revolution that would harrow Hell. Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for harrow
Verb
  • The rest of the cast comes with big question marks after injuries and inconsistency plagued this group last season.
    Harman Dayal, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Cobweb Eight-year-old Peter is plagued by a mysterious, constant tap, tap from inside his bedroom wall — a tapping that his parents insist is all in his imagination.
    Caitlin White, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • While there is no cure for West Nile virus, health officials said, supportive care in hospitals can help people afflicted with severe neuroinvasive symptoms.
    Cathie Anderson, Sacbee.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Subsequent names didn't stick either, despite cases of this unusual form of diabetes continuing to surface, especially in areas afflicted with malnutrition.
    Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Love for our enemies and love for those who persecute us.
    Fatma Tanis, NPR, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Leatherface attacks, but the real villains turn out to be the townsfolk who persecuted the Sawyers after the original massacre.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This is the cost of having been tortured in public.
    Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The mistake tortures them, which prompts the couple to try and solve the mystery by producing a fake play in an attempt to get their ex-neighbor Mary (Chloe Cherry) to audition.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In the past, that kind of small mistake would torment her for the rest of the day.
    Eileen Finan, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • In his country home, he is tormented by the reality that there are too many, and more coming, as two cats are pregnant.
    Rebecca van Laer September 30, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Harrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/harrow. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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