Example Sentences

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There are discussions of high-altitude running, and pain thresholds.

From Salon • Aug. 24, 2021

Yet the United States’ social hypochondria has deepened, and Americans’ pain thresholds have lowered during the nation’s advancement.

From Washington Post • May 6, 2021

Players have immense pain thresholds, but they also minimize injuries, if they bother disclosing them, out of fear, as well — fear of losing their jobs, their livelihoods, their sense of self.

From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2020

There's nothing like it, a two-month test of will and pain thresholds, of players taking pucks to the face or shin and taping an aspirin to it before they go back out for more.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2018

But the team wasn’t able to track these patients long-term to ask the bigger questions: How long until their pain thresholds bounced back to normal?

From Science Magazine • Nov. 3, 2016