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torn

[tawrn, tohrn] / tɔrn, toʊrn /




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And then the torn ACL cost her 25 games of her rookie season and another 25 last season, plus her spot on the United States’ Olympic 3x3 women’s basketball team in Paris in 2024.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

Over the course of a year, The Wall Street Journal followed the town and its people wrestling with leaving their homes as the fabric of their lives is slowly, painfully torn apart.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

This is why the nation’s founders instituted religious freedom — they witnessed how Europe was torn apart by wars waged between different flavors of Christianity.

From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026

I was torn between signing and going on to a four-year college on a scholarship.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

We ran down from the hill through some country that a tornado had ripped and torn.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen




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