as in fire
a test of faith, patience, or strength
the hikers were finally rescued after a three-day ordeal in the wilderness
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Recent Examples of ordeal
In announcing the moves, the league cited the importance of keeping emergency services available to help with the unprecedented ordeal.
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Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 11 Jan. 2025
Eckardt has advised his clients to refrain from posting on social media about their ordeals.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 11 Jan. 2025
Come Tuesday—day two of the ordeal—some passengers started to deteriorate mentally.
—Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
This would just be the beginning of their five-hour ordeal the night a massive winter storm rolled into the Kansas City area.
—Alecia Taylor, Kansas City Star, 5 Jan. 2025
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Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 11 Jan. 2025
Eckardt has advised his clients to refrain from posting on social media about their ordeals.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 11 Jan. 2025
Come Tuesday—day two of the ordeal—some passengers started to deteriorate mentally.
—Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
This would just be the beginning of their five-hour ordeal the night a massive winter storm rolled into the Kansas City area.
—Alecia Taylor, Kansas City Star, 5 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ordeal
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Naked Burn Gel for fire stunts; Dustin Brooks and Colin Decker for the development of Fire for Hire’s naked burn gel; and Attila T. Áfra for the Intel Open Image Denoise, and Timo Aila for his work at NVIDIA applying U-Nets to denoising.—
Carolyn Giardina,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
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Giorgio’s Discotheque Sunset at EDITION Giorgio’s Discotheque, from famed LA club promoter Bryan Rabin, will return, this year supporting MusiCares Disaster Relief via a $30 donation required for entry that will go towards fire relief efforts.—
Kirsten Chuba,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Jan. 2025
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What Mayorkas is sure of is that the incoming administration, despite its rhetoric, will face the same gauntlet of challenges that burdened his team.—
Michael Wilner,
Miami Herald,
17 Jan. 2025
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Keeping his leads separated for most of the runtime, Polish runs them through gauntlets of knife fights, fist fights, gun fights, rocket fights and more.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
17 Jan. 2025
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During the 1973 oil embargo, Congress enacted a year-round DST trial to save fuel, but it was revoked in 1975 due to safety concerns over dark winter mornings.—
Maria Sokolina,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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In 2023, his case against another tabloid group, Mirror Group Newspapers, went to trial.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN,
22 Jan. 2025
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Thilo Kehrer, who rises above Mings, meets the resulting cross emphatically.—
Jacob Tanswell,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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In the center of the back of the coin, a large cross was meant to symbolize imperial power, establishing Otto III’s Christianity and blending it with the power of the empire, according to historians.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Ordeal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ordeal. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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