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But this is a dangerous, heart-wrenching option that could be avoided with the legal availability of medical aid in dying.
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Tony Ray, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2025
There is no elaborately unfolding allegory, nor any heart-wrenching depictions of human relationships amid tragedy; there is only a directness.
—Hazlitt, 27 Feb. 2025
When she is offered a once-in-a-lifetime chance to attend school, she is forced to make a heart-wrenching decision that will determine her and her sister Palak’s (Ananya Shanbhag) fate.
—Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Feb. 2025
Remains of Shiri Bibas returned, family says The latest hostage exchange is going ahead after tensions mounted over a grisly and heart-wrenching dispute triggered this week when Hamas initially handed over the wrong body for Shiri Bibas, an Israeli mother of two young boys abducted by militants.
—CBS News, 22 Feb. 2025
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Tony Ray, Orlando Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2025
There is no elaborately unfolding allegory, nor any heart-wrenching depictions of human relationships amid tragedy; there is only a directness.
—Hazlitt, 27 Feb. 2025
When she is offered a once-in-a-lifetime chance to attend school, she is forced to make a heart-wrenching decision that will determine her and her sister Palak’s (Ananya Shanbhag) fate.
—Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Feb. 2025
Remains of Shiri Bibas returned, family says The latest hostage exchange is going ahead after tensions mounted over a grisly and heart-wrenching dispute triggered this week when Hamas initially handed over the wrong body for Shiri Bibas, an Israeli mother of two young boys abducted by militants.
—CBS News, 22 Feb. 2025
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“Heart-wrenching.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heart-wrenching. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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