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are pains
noun
An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
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Now that I am 12, I think 3-year-olds are pains.
"Their one-two guys are pains in the butt, and then you get to the power guys," the Yankees' Johnny Damon said.
Mount worries about a girl vomiting ("Hold your hair back if you feel unwell," he advises); elsewhere, on The Most Immaculate Haircut, Mount's legs are giving way, there are pains shooting down his left side.
At one point, a former Supreme Court law clerk is quoted on the matter of Douglas's personal failings: "You just have to say to yourself, 'You know, enough people are pains in the neck who don't do anything worthwhile in their lives.' " This seems to be a fair statement of Murphy's own attitude.
Something similar holds for any world considered as actual: were we in a world in which scientists find out that our unpleasant sensations are not attended by c-fibers, we would still say that those sensations are "pains".
Most doctors here know nothing of Lyme disease, or have false information; for example they think the symptoms are pains in the joints.
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The symptoms are pain and some swelling.
There you are, pain.
"Pain is pain.
But pain is pain.
Was pain well controlled?
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