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“The Falwell, Granda and Cohen families must be going through very distressful times,” he said in a text message.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 18, 2020
Needless to say this was a very distressful and infuriating experience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2017
“Maternity, or additional offspring, may force upon the woman a distressful life and future,” Justice Blackmun wrote in Roe v.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 20, 2017
In Sidcup, England, the town that was home to Gillies' special facial hospital, some park benches were painted blue; a code that warned townspeople that any man sitting on one would be distressful to view.
From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2013
“A piteous and distressful thing, then, that you will not live to return home and tell what you have seen.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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