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painful

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Reale and other FireAid organizers admit that the scale of aid needed is staggering, universally painful yet fraught with class and racial stratification.

The media mogul allegedly told Michaels “where to go, what to wear, what to read, what to watch, and what to say” and required him to submit to extensive painful cosmetic treatments.

Eli had been lying down for hours in his stall yesterday in Trabuco Canyon, unable to stand and suffering from painful colic that would have been fatal if he remained down too long.

Japan's massive auto industry, which accounts for eight percent of the country's jobs, is reeling from painful levies already in place.

From BBC

There, 25% of 16 to 29-year-olds are users and dentists are seeing increasing numbers of patients with painful inflammation that is taking months, sometimes years, to heal.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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