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- adjective
sickening - adjective difficult to
tolerate
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Examples
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When an anonymous poster made a plea, last week, for everyone to pause and consider the emotional fallout from adoption – this within the context of debates concerning the emotional consequences of abortion – I immediately thought of my mother and the gut-wrenching turmoil she experienced as a result of giving up a child for adoption.
Abortion Means Never Having To Say You’re Sorry | Her Bad Mother 2009
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And so the thought of abandoning it – of being abandoned by it – was terrifying, gut-wrenching.
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And, as we held our hands to our hearts and wept gut-wrenching tears of unimaginable sadness, we watched them jump.
Dori Hartley: September 11, 2001: The Day I Forgot I Had Cancer Dori Hartley 2011
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Mr. McGrath, who spent $60,000 converting his 15,000- square-foot factory, is like many entrepreneurs facing gut-wrenching decisions as a result of the prolonged economic slump.
When Cost Cuts Fail... Drastic Measures Angus Loten 2011
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And, as we held our hands to our hearts and wept gut-wrenching tears of unimaginable sadness, we watched them jump.
Dori Hartley: September 11, 2001: The Day I Forgot I Had Cancer Dori Hartley 2011
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Watching her navigate through a hometown she no longer feels safe in is gut-wrenching, literally.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: Milneberg Joys and Losses: Treme 15 Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011
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Penner announced two years ago he was a transsexual, and wrote a gut-wrenching and brave column about it that made it clear what he was doing and why — and did so with so much grace that the kind of public comment you might expect was mostly quelled.
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As they told us about their loss, the pain in their voices was gut-wrenching.
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Watching her navigate through a hometown she no longer feels safe in is gut-wrenching, literally.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: Milneberg Joys and Losses: Treme 15 Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011
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Such mistakes are gut-wrenching and perhaps inexcusable.
Kent Greenfield: When Kids Are Left in Cars: Blame the Brain Kent Greenfield 2011
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