pain

The opening of Africa's biggest refinery, by billionaire industrialist Aliko Dangote, has done little to stem the pain, which has only been ratcheted up further as the war in Iran squeezes global oil prices.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

The brilliant Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-dong is a suffering protagonist’s best friend, exploring the buried pain in people like no other filmmaker.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

The cost is the pain of knowledge, but the benefit is a humane and moving vision of the world and the afterlife.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

In some ways, Las Vegas is a funny fit for the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul, who’s been transforming pain into music since her 1992 debut, “What’s the 411?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

I pictured Da coming along the road, his pack on his shoulders, and felt a pain in my chest.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

When Caroline Bailey was suffering with sharp, stabbing pains in her stomach, she thought it was being caused by her contraceptive coil.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Most of Mekelle's stores remained shuttered on Sunday, with several business owners taking pains to hide their stocks from Thursday as the federal forces drew closer.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

The daughter of another medbed believer recalled her mother’s words: We won’t have those aches and pains anymore; your dad’s heart will be better.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

There might be growing pains, but the raw talent is on display.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

Tata was sometimes dependable, but just as often she was incoherent, or laid up with aches and pains.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

At one point, she appears pained by a television report on the Vietnam War, showing a self-immolating monk; her unhappiness about becoming a mother is also offered as a plausible explanation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

When I was in second grade, during a parent teacher conference, my teacher was pained to tell my mother that her son would never learn to read.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

As the memory of it washes back over you, “Omaha” lingers, like a devastating short story — devastating because it’s about a pained father for whom the road ahead only seems to get narrower.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

Kurlender said it pained him to see hundreds of thousands of south Lebanese displaced from their villages just minutes away, but thought that Israel's military offensive was necessary.

From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026

Mama got a pained look in her eyes.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata

A second person said: "The bolt challenge is paining me because it’s innocent and hardworking people on both sides that are suffering for the wickedness and thoughtlessness of other people. Really unfair."

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2024

“She can feel pain, and she starts crying, saying, ‘It is here and it is rising and it is paining here and here.'”

From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2024

“Oh, it was a hurting, paining feeling going through my heart to know that something like that would happen on this street.”

From Fox News ● Aug. 10, 2019

Your silhouette appears on the paining, sometimes surrounded by a glowing aura.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2019

She put her hand on her throat and scrunched up her face like something was paining her.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan