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Recent Examples of painful These conversations are frequently painful and hard; data scientists have noted that Thanksgiving dinners with guests who cross party lines are frequently shorter. Betsy Sinclair, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2025 The current skittishness in markets has been extra painful for investors with heavy tech exposure, specifically those owning Mag 7 stocks: Tesla, Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple. Jeff Kilburg, CNBC, 21 Mar. 2025 On top of that, hollies with pointy leaves can be painful to run into. Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 20 Mar. 2025 While that decline was painful for COST holders, the stock bottomed in mid-May, five months before the S & P 500 ultimately found its own low in October 2022. Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 12 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for painful
Recent Examples of Synonyms for painful
Adjective
  • Made with silicone, this teether has a variety of textures that are meant to soothe a baby’s sore gums.
    Laura Lu, Parents, 29 Mar. 2025
  • State of play: Cantrell's travel has been a sore spot during her second term.
    Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Designed for hiking and other outdoor adventures, these water-resistant pants are made with UPF 50 protection from harsh sun rays along with several spacious, handy pockets.
    Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Trump’s election confirmed, to some on the Left, that the country really was as bad as some of their harshest rhetoric suggested.
    Alexander Nazaryan, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Somebody Somewhere is tiny: a gorgeous, introspective, intimate story about a woman with devastatingly mundane problems whose chief obstacle is her own aching sense of grief and dislocation.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
  • In this novel about the shape-shifting nature of love, Parsons captures Kit’s grief in aching and honest terms.
    Annabel Gutterman, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Michael, in a filmed conversation with Grace, claimed that his ex-wife had manipulated him and was cruel to Natalia.
    Fortesa Latifi, Rolling Stone, 19 Mar. 2025
  • In Season 2, a cruel winter brings new challenges and unfinished business to Jacob (Harrison Ford) and Cara (Helen Mirren) back at Dutton ranch.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Their relocation will mark the end of a long, and often torturous, journey for the club that began almost 25 years ago.
    Tom Burrows, The Athletic, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Now, five years after the declaration of a worldwide COVID-19 pandemic and three years past seeing how torturous a death the virus can bring, Shaver says the experience gave her a new perspective on life.
    Tammy Ljungblad, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • What could possibly motivate anyone to choose again and again to endure such excruciating pain?
    Tim Genske, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
  • But the end games were excruciating losses, usually in the national semifinals, once in the final, and once — just once — in the Sweet 16.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Social media is filled with quips and notes about the agonizing ways in which the show nails the corporate experience.
    Leah Asmelash, CNN, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Coming to grips with what happened has been agonizing.
    Christine Pelisek, People.com, 17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • To add to Ferrari’s woes, Hamilton was also disqualified from sixth as the rear skid block on his car failed to meet the minimum thickness requirement – a bitter pill to swallow for the Brit who had secured his first victory for the team in the sprint earlier in the weekend.
    Yara Elshebiny, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Some instant coffee is made with Robusta beans, which can be a bit bitter.
    Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 23 Mar. 2025

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“Painful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/painful. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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