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Recent Examples of torturous Fans rushed the floor after OSU secured the upset, a joyous celebration on a campus that’s been through the college realignment wringer, a torturous process that ultimately killed the Beavers’ conference. Lindsay Schnell, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025 For those who survive, the war wages on in an insidious and torturous form: hunger. Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025 Editor’s picks ‘Brutal beatings’ Cooper and hundreds of Dozier students accused school wardens of torturous abuse over minor infractions, like whippings, beatings, forced labor, and medical neglect. Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2024 Minuscule, meticulous, torturous, and incomprehensible to most mortals. Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Harper's Magazine, 22 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for torturous
Recent Examples of Synonyms for torturous
Adjective
  • Like witnessing a bad car crash, Ye’s (formerly known as Kanye West) latest episodes of hate speech and misogyny have been painful to watch and continue to elicit shock and dismay from every corner of the entertainment world.
    David Renzer, Rolling Stone, 12 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
Adjective
  • Five years ago this week, the television industry rose to the challenge of keeping news, daytime and late-night talk shows and other topical series on the air during the harsh early months of the COVID pandemic.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Smith isn’t alone in that sentiment, as other analysts and critics have shared his harsh review of Bronny’s performance in the NBA.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 12 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
  • 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
  • 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
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
  • An intense look at the world of competitive bodybuilding and remake of a Argentine thriller top our roundup of this week’s new films.
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Described as the sport world’s equivalent of the Vatican’s conclave voting procedure for a new pope, the election by secret ballot was preceded by intense lobbying campaigns by all the candidates.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 20 Mar. 2025

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“Torturous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/torturous. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.

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