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Currently, families are forced to make gut-wrenching choices between housing and health care, groceries and medicine.
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Christine Quinn, New York Daily News, 17 Feb. 2025
Losing your luggage is an absolutely gut-wrenching experience.
—Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 9 Feb. 2025
After the New Artist award was presented, there was a gut-wrenching montage that showed the unthinkable devastation wrought by the Los Angeles wildfires last month.
—Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 2 Feb. 2025
Yet another gut-wrenching scenario for a team that now has won an uncanny 17 straight one-possession games.
—Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2025
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Christine Quinn, New York Daily News, 17 Feb. 2025
Losing your luggage is an absolutely gut-wrenching experience.
—Amelia McBride, Travel + Leisure, 9 Feb. 2025
After the New Artist award was presented, there was a gut-wrenching montage that showed the unthinkable devastation wrought by the Los Angeles wildfires last month.
—Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 2 Feb. 2025
Yet another gut-wrenching scenario for a team that now has won an uncanny 17 straight one-possession games.
—Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2025
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“Gut-wrenching.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gut-wrenching. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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