panged

past tense of pang

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for panged
Verb
  • To see how much this moment pained Seattle and its players, look no further than MVP candidate Cal Raleigh, who was reduced to tears at the end of the game.
    George Ramsay, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Aggrieved and pained, Mary returns from the grave to exact revenge on anyone who steps inside her family home.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Thomas hurt his hamstring repeatedly last year, which limited him to 25 games.
    Eric Koreen, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2025
  • This insanity has to stop before anyone else gets hurt.
    Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • An American teacher and his teenage son have been stung to death while on holiday in Laos.
    Christian Orozco, NBC news, 5 Nov. 2025
  • An American father and son died after being stung by a swarm of hornets while ziplining in Southeast Asia, local officials confirmed.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Investigators found the bodies nearby — Davis and Shelton had been shot, Friedt had been stabbed with a hunting knife whose blade broke off in her chest, and Flemmons died from asphyxiation after suffering blunt-force injuries, per A&E, citing Julie Young’s book The Burger Chef Murders in Indiana.
    Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The ambassador stabbed Berry during the struggle, the Sheriff’s Office said.
    Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 8 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Most of the excess labor cost was wrung out during the depths of the rolling recession, aligning wage expenses with profitability and setting up businesses to benefit disproportionately from any top-line improvement.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Brain wrung like a sponge every rinse cycle.
    Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The flood of people overwhelmed Bajo Chiquito, an impoverished community of 382 members of the Indigenous Emberá-Wounaan people.
    Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Food banks nationwide are overwhelmed by surging demand, with long lines and limited supplies.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • At some point, the glass negative cracked, and a thin black lightning strike of a line smote General Terry in the chest.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • When, in reality, not that all Jews have money, but the reality is, for 3000 years, white people who were male and female, had money and didn't have money, were being brutally oppressed.
    Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The men are seen as misogynistic, and the women are oppressed.
    Deena ElGenaidi, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
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“Panged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/panged. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.

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