Example Sentences

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Before he took office, Colby wrote in a 2024 opinion piece in the Taipei Times that America has a strong interest in defending Taiwan but can’t do so if the cost becomes intolerably high.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Morgan's vote proposed that suffering "intolerably" from an incurable physical condition should have the option of an assisted death.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2025

If all this sounds intolerably retro, pay closer attention.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2023

I had been OK with these odds for my patients, but at this moment they seemed intolerably risky for my own liking.

From Slate • Nov. 26, 2023

It recalls me intolerably to those final days in Canaan.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson