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Example sentences for: pains

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Despite the growing pains of economic reform, including income contraction and worsening public health, a "free-market consensus" has emerged in the ex-Communist countries.
It was especially unfair to put a word in your mouth, "intrumentalization," which you have taken pains to avoid--and for very good reasons.
But they also take pains not to dismiss the trauma the Holocaust visited and continues to visit upon Jews.
Later on my trip, for example, I met a woman who had no special connections but had been sent here after she developed frightening stomach pains.
Growing Pains