We were in an almost unbearable state of excitement.
this heat is unbearable—when are we going to get air-conditioning?
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If your allergies become unbearable, however, there’s really only one permanent cure, Dr. Rosenthal tells PEOPLE.—Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2024 Many of the Amazon’s 40 million human inhabitants may be displaced by unbearable heat, and Indigenous peoples in particular would lose their livelihoods, ways of life, and knowledge systems.—Quentin Septer, WIRED, 11 Mar. 2024 Once April rolls around, the heat in the desert will become unbearable until fall arrives.—Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024 Father and son are on a quest to get to the bottom of almost unbearable truths, but their travels often have the warmth and goofiness of a buddy comedy.—Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024 But if the mission does not come soon, experts and government insiders warn that mounting pressure over Haiti’s unbearable violence is likely to explode.—Caitlin Stephen Hu, CNN, 4 Mar. 2024 The men described in phone interviews unbearable cold, repulsive food, unsanitary conditions and beatings in Penal Colony No. 3 of the remote Yamalo-Nenets region, where Mr. Navalny arrived in December to serve out the remainder of his 19-year old prison sentence.—Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024 My own childhood was fairly O.K. to begin with, but went off the rails when my parents suffered unbearable tragedies and were given no help in dealing with them.—Dennis Zhou, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
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