pangs 1 of 2

plural of pang

pangs

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of pang

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of pangs
Verb
After all, who wants to feel the pangs of self-doubt, anxiety, or chronic stress? Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025 Poor people know the intimate, badgering pangs of hunger, but in Ireland, the memory of the 1845-1848 Famine—the Great Hunger, when one million died from starvation and disease, and another million emigrated—still aches. Philip Metres august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025 Ah, let’s brush away these pangs of insecurity. Oliver Kay, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pangs
Noun
  • The polarising billionaire had spent only a few hours in prison upon his return from 15 years of self-exile in August 2023 before he was hospitalised after complaining of heart trouble and chest pains, prompting widespread scepticism and public outrage.
    Panarat Thepgumpanat, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
  • And the Zoned Lumbar Support offers focused support for your lower back, ensuring proper spinal alignment and reducing pressure on your lumbar region, helping to alleviate aches and pains.
    Sherrie Nachman, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • And the Zoned Lumbar Support offers focused support for your lower back, ensuring proper spinal alignment and reducing pressure on your lumbar region, helping to alleviate aches and pains.
    Sherrie Nachman, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Infected people can experience common symptoms including fever, fatigue, body aches, headache, loss of appetite, diarrhea and vomiting.
    Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The object may slip or the line may blur, but what hurts more is the sense of exclusion.
    Bill Schiffmiller, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • As Dexter questions why Batista’s death hurts so much, Brian chastises his brother for listening to Harry too much.
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The person then stabs it with a long knife.
    Claudia Lauer, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Near the end of the video, the unseen cameraperson flips the notebook to a page containing a diagram of the church and stabs the diagram with a knife.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 28 Aug. 2025

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“Pangs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pangs. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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