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as in agonies
a situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness
the flood brought misery to the many hundreds whom it had made homeless
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as in pains
a state of great suffering of body or mind
a medication that promises to provide greater relief to those living in chronic misery because of arthritis
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Recent Examples of miseries
But current virus variants continue to spread burning throats, fevers and other miseries.
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Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2025
Task begins by setting up the parallels between Tom and Robbie, two flawed men trying to keep their heads above the water of their own miseries, cutting back and forth between their routines to emphasize their similar ideologies and spontaneities.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
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
Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2025
Task begins by setting up the parallels between Tom and Robbie, two flawed men trying to keep their heads above the water of their own miseries, cutting back and forth between their routines to emphasize their similar ideologies and spontaneities.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for miseries
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For many, the virus results in flu-like symptoms, such as a fever with headache, body aches, joint pains, vomiting, diarrhea or rash, per the CDC.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
28 Sep. 2025
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In April, 44-year-old Marie Ange Blaise, a Haitian, died while being held at GEO’s Pompano Beach facility after complaining of chest pains.—
Shirsho Dasgupta,
Miami Herald,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The latter may scoff at the idea of a nostalgic horror movie, but anyone who's had the urge to peek through their fingers as nightmares unfold in front of them knows that fear can be both cathartic and illuminating.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Oct. 2025
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The timing isn't ideal, as the Browns travel to London to face Brian Flores' Minnesota defense, whose complex, blitz-heavy schemes seem a thing of nightmares for rookie passers.—
Jacob Robinson,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Black people, especially in America, have been subjected to the horrors of history.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2025
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In the show, Ed is inspired by a comic book about Koch titled The Bitch of Buchenwald, given to him by Adeline, suggesting that her sadistic treatment of Jews during the Holocaust led to Gein’s house of horrors in Wisconsin.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
4 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Former Jews deemed insufficiently converted faced the Spanish Inquisition’s tortures.—
David Bloom,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Miseries.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miseries. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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