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The phrase "almost unbearable to read" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a text or piece of writing that is very difficult to read due to its content, style, or presentation.
Example: "The author's convoluted prose made the novel almost unbearable to read, leaving many readers frustrated."
Alternatives: "nearly intolerable to read" or "hardly bearable to read".
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His story is almost unbearable to read.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi's Guantánamo Diary (Canongate) is almost unbearable to read, which is why it's so important that we do.
After his arrest in his home town of Amstetten almost a year ago, the sickening details of his crimes, which were rapidly made public, were almost unbearable to read.
His love for his two sons, Zafar (born 1979) and Milan (1997), shines through, and the remorse of his failed marriages to their mothers, the late Clarissa Luard, and Elizabeth West, is almost unbearable to read.
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It's nearly unbearable to read.
THE Senate recount in Minnesota is the most important political story that's totally unbearable to read about.
"It's not so gruesome that it would be unbearable to read," she said.
"As a Buddhist monk who believes in the Dalai Lama as our foundation, it was unbearable to read this," Lobsang said.
The public discussion of euthanasia, for example, is full of individual stories that are simply unbearable to read.
The book was sometimes simply unbearable to read and I was often sorry I'd ever opened it.
It can be amusing to read a magazine whose principles you despise, but it is almost unbearable to watch such a television show.
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