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- noun Plural form of
torturing .
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Examples
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These days, I often must force myself to follow the news, even more so since the torturings at Abu Gharaib - to not avert my eyes from images of torturing and killing, and more killing, in Iraq.
Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: The Otterness Blizzard Allan M. Jalon 2011
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These days, I often must force myself to follow the news, even more so since the torturings at Abu Gharaib - to not avert my eyes from images of torturing and killing, and more killing, in Iraq.
Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: The Otterness Blizzard Allan M. Jalon 2011
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These days, I often must force myself to follow the news, even more so since the torturings at Abu Gharaib - to not avert my eyes from images of torturing and killing, and more killing, in Iraq.
Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: The Otterness Blizzard Allan M. Jalon 2011
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These days, I often must force myself to follow the news, even more so since the torturings at Abu Gharaib - to not avert my eyes from images of torturing and killing, and more killing, in Iraq.
Allan M. Jalon: Arts Lust: The Otterness Blizzard Allan M. Jalon 2011
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Could they possibly be more destructive than the shoot-outs, bombings, and torturings occasioned by their illegal status?
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Unlike the searches without warrants, the violations of habeas corpus, the torturings and the other actual criminal acts for which they will hopefully have to pay in court, it was legal to do what they wanted in this instance.
"IS EVERYONE BUSH HIRES A WOODEN HEADED, LONG NOSED PINOCCIO?" 2007
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They have all heard about these horrific torturings that are going on.
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Arrests and kidnappings and torturings and escapes and rescues and revelations of Dark PastsTM - alright, not dark, really, more like slightly grey - and all sorts of things.
between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day hawkwing_lb 2005
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The craving came over her to forget her self-torturings, and to forget them in a dizzy whirl.
Maurice Guest 2003
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I hoped earnestly that if these dealings were found out that any penalties which might be involved, in particular, such things as torturings and impalements, would be visited upon the sutlers and not on their customers, and particularly not on folks who might be traveling with their customers.
Mercenaries Of Gor Norman, John 1985
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