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Recent Examples of mortification Blanding is suing for damages such as stress, humiliation, embarrassment, outrage, mental anguish, fear and mortification, as well as emotional, economic and non-economic damages. Charmaine Patterson, People.com, 29 Jan. 2025 The most delightful of all mortifications is the idea that life, as Carl Jung said, really does begin at 40. Mitch Wallace, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025 Soundscapes of the Silenced In late Renaissance Florence one in five women lived behind institutional walls whose rule was sensory mortification. Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024 In late Renaissance Florence one in five women lived behind institutional walls whose rule was sensory mortification. Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 14 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for mortification
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Noun
  • Who’s to blame for the embarrassment that has become Lincoln Yards?
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2025
  • The problem with toughing it out alone, though, is that a lot of people will continue to isolate themselves for weeks, Brown says, whether out of embarrassment, fear, or pride.
    Jenna Ryu, SELF, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • For potential patients, this information overload—and the social baggage that comes with it—often creates more confusion than clarity.
    Christy Saia-Owenby, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • The juror also explained brief confusion Wednesday afternoon that arose out of a verdict that jurors later retracted before it was read in court.
    Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 19 June 2025

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“Mortification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mortification. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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