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- noun Plural form of
anguish . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
anguish .
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Examples
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This, of course, shocks the kindly father superior (Toby Jones), who anguishes at graduation time over the waste of such a talented student (and even hints that drop-outs' scholarships can be converted into student loans totaling $100,000 or more).
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Rite Marshall Fine 2011
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The "failing" school anguishes in the face of the inevitable as the shiny new school on the floor below enjoys its freshly painted walls, new furniture and cutting-edge equipment.
Michele Somerville: The NYC DOE Needs an A-Team Michele Somerville 2011
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The "failing" school anguishes in the face of the inevitable as the shiny new school on the floor below enjoys its freshly painted walls, new furniture and cutting-edge equipment.
Michele Somerville: The NYC DOE Needs an A-Team Michele Somerville 2011
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For them there was nothing left — no more tremblings and flutterings and delicious anguishes, no more throbbing and pulsing, and sighing and song.
WHEN GOD LAUGHS 2010
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The "failing" school anguishes in the face of the inevitable as the shiny new school on the floor below enjoys its freshly painted walls, new furniture and cutting-edge equipment.
Michele Somerville: The NYC DOE Needs an A-Team Michele Somerville 2011
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The apostle Paul has a great passage in the book of Romans, chapter 7 I believe, where he anguishes over the fact that the good that he knows and wants to do he finds difficult to accomplish because of his flesh (in neuroscience, brain).
Testing the Freedom to Choose, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I knew, as never before, nor since, the thousand dear and delightful anguishes of love frustrated but ever resilient and beckoned on by the very goddess of love.
THE PRINCESS 2010
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The "failing" school anguishes in the face of the inevitable as the shiny new school on the floor below enjoys its freshly painted walls, new furniture and cutting-edge equipment.
Michele Somerville: The NYC DOE Needs an A-Team Michele Somerville 2011
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Imagine the humiliation his family feels as he bears his soul and anguishes over the loss of his soulmate.
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It would have made him look weak and intemperate, and it would have strengthened this idea that he's someone who anguishes over a decision too much.
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