harrow

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Recent Examples of harrow The research fellow who met me, Birte, was in her forties, and appeared as if she had been harrowed by her work. John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024 Plus, Shin Ha-young is given little to do in the second half of the series despite her effortless shift from warm third wheel to harrowed and weary abuse victim. Geoffrey Bunting, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2023 Track maintenance will then harrow the track to release the compactness and return it to its regular consistency for racing. Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2021 That same humble deity, in the course of putting on humanity, had obtained a glimpse of the conditions on earth—poverty, needless estrangement, a stubborn pattern of rich ruling over poor—and decided to incite a revolution that would harrow Hell. Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
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Verb
  • Puerto Rico is frequently plagued by power outages, with the most recent island-wide event on New Year's Eve taking days to resolve.
    Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Now a depth arm in the organization who was called up from triple-A Oklahoma City for a spot start Wednesday, Miller’s first MLB outing of 2025 mirrored the struggles that plagued him over the rest of 2024.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
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  • As inflation, tariffs, and other economic woes start afflicting the working class, Americans must not ignore the quiet rumble of tax reform on Capitol Hill, which poses additional concerns for those who are already struggling -- especially the most financially vulnerable among us.
    Jack Salmon, National Review, 14 Apr. 2025
  • For instance, if your potatoes and tomatoes are afflicted with black spot, don't plant your rose in the vegetable garden.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 13 Apr. 2025
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  • Sold to the public as increasing transparency, the legislation has been utilized to persecute Georgia’s opposition and arrest dissidents with impunity.
    Anastasiya Zavyalova, The Conversation, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Again, none of these Beautiful People ever thought of assisting Americans who were being persecuted by the Deep State these last few years before Jan. 20.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 19 Mar. 2025
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  • The Court's ruling requires DHS to provide basic procedural protections so that persons are not secretly removed to a country where they may be persecuted or tortured.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Michael Sang Correa was charged with torturing five men believed to be opponents of Yahya Jammeh following an unsuccessful plot to remove him from power in 2006.
    Colleen Slevin, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Several argued that they had been subjected to an unfair process, and had been tormented with the fear of public shaming and the ensuing consequences for their careers.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 12 Apr. 2025
  • In this one-setting genre piece, Fahy’s character Violet spends most of her time scanning a restaurant trying to identify who could be tormenting her.
    Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 11 Apr. 2025

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“Harrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/harrow. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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