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will wince

  • future tense
    of wince.
    wince
    verb (used without object)
    to draw back or tense the body, as from pain or from a blow; start; flinch.

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City fans will wince remembering the end of 2023-24, when a late loss at home to Arsenal saw the title slip form their grasp into Chelsea's hands.

From BBC Dec. 7, 2025

You will laugh and you will wince, and you will see yourself and those you love.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 23, 2022

As he wrote in the Journal of Medical Ethics, “In many cases, the patient will wince or wriggle during the procedure — some may even tell you it hurts.”

From New York Times Jan. 30, 2019

And, like Ghostbusters, it has definite weirdness in it that you can overlook as a kid but will wince at as an adult.

From The Guardian Apr. 13, 2018

If you speak of it to him, he will wince and change the subject.

From The Clicking of Cuthbert by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse