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be at pains

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. take pains, be at painsverb

    try very hard to do something

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of be at pains in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of be at pains in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of be at pains in a Sentence

  1. Paul Ryan:

    I think what you're seeing is we're going through the inevitable growing pains of being an opposition party to becoming a governing party.

  2. David Yepsen:

    His campaign has got all kinds of growing pains and it doesn’t make sense that he would spend any kind of time going out of the country.

  3. Ron Johnson:

    The first thing you do is support law enforcement, and unfortunately, the lieutenant governor has not done that. He has a record of wanting to defund the police – I know he doesn’t necessarily use that word, but he has a long history of being supported by people leading the effort to defund, he uses code words. Like Cori Bush said, talks about ‘reallocate over bloated police budgets.’ He said it pains him to see fully funded police budgets. That’s his views.

  4. Gordon Lightfoot:

    If you see me smile don't think I'm acting strange I got my just reward for all my pains

  5. Mike Golub:

    The MLS, its well documented, had its share of growing pains when it was still a toddler and a youth, if you will. So. I dont think any of us involved in the NWSL thought this was going to be an easy journey in establishing a viable womens league.

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