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The months between his surgery and the news that he was cancer-free were emotional purgatory for his whole family.purgatory = a state of temporary suffering while waiting
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In some branches of Christianity, believers pray for the souls of the dead to be released from purgatorypurgatory = a place of temporary suffering after death
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After hours of sitting in the airport with no updates, the stranded travelers described the experience as pure purgatory.purgatory = a state of temporary suffering while waiting
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"Where are we?" "Purgatory," says Hayden. "Also known as Arizona." (source)Purgatory = a place of temporary suffering
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Canton was a seething purgatory in the shape of a pork chop, consisting mostly of coral and scrubby plants huddled close to the ground, as if cringing from the heat. (source)
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She couldn't stand another day like this, not knowing if her ugly purgatory would ever end. (source)purgatory = a state of temporary suffering while waiting
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I would get through my self-imposed sentence here in purgatory, and then hopefully some school in the Southwest, or possibly Hawaii, would offer me a scholarship. (source)purgatory = a place of temporary suffering
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Anyone who had seen the lurid Bosch painting of the same name understood the jab; the painting, like the forest, was dark and twisted, a purgatory for freaks and fetishists. (source)purgatory = a place of suffering
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They were all different rooms in purgatory, each different but each the same, and the Nazis made it all the more nonsensical by shuttling us around from one to the other, as though it made any difference. (source)
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Or is she instead a foretaste of Purgatory?† (source)
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And as to my calling the period of our youth a "purgatory," Owen said simply, "THERE IS NO PURGATORY—THAT'S A CATHOLIC INVENTION.† (source)
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I spent the months following my grandfather's death cycling through a purgatory of beige waiting rooms and anonymous offices, analyzed and interviewed, talked about just out of earshot, nodding when spoken to, repeating myself, the object of a thousand pitying glances and knitted brows.† (source)
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Paul didn't think so but he wasn't sure, not being sure of things, he knew, was a charmless corner of purgatory reserved for writers who were driving fast with no idea at all where they were going.† (source)
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A baptism would lift Lourdes's constant concern that Diana's unexpected death will send her daughter to purgatory.† (source)
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And then the insurance debacles, the descent into this health care purgatory.† (source)
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Three weeks into the new year, the snow finally rescued me from my purgatory of guilt.† (source)
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