in the throes of
idiom
: experiencing (something painful)
She met him while he was in the throes of a messy divorce.
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Kyle, who turned 40 earlier this month, is in the throes of his 20th Cup Series season.
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Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 24 May 2025
Review and update your job search material now, while you’re still employed and not in the throes of a layoff.
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After skipping town to evade a nagging creditor in 2008, Harper returns to her Detroit suburb months later to find her two older sisters, once in the throes of debt, sporting fresh highlights and driving a Lexus.
—Laura Thompson, New York Times, 22 May 2025
How to build bomb builders As the 1990s ended, the U.S. nuclear weapons industry was in the throes of a talent crisis that emerged from the end of the arms race with the Soviet Union.
—Davis Winkie, USA Today, 19 May 2025
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Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 24 May 2025
Review and update your job search material now, while you’re still employed and not in the throes of a layoff.
—Caroline Ceniza-Levine, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
Penguin Press, June 17 Image El Dorado Drive by Megan Abbott
After skipping town to evade a nagging creditor in 2008, Harper returns to her Detroit suburb months later to find her two older sisters, once in the throes of debt, sporting fresh highlights and driving a Lexus.
—Laura Thompson, New York Times, 22 May 2025
How to build bomb builders As the 1990s ended, the U.S. nuclear weapons industry was in the throes of a talent crisis that emerged from the end of the arms race with the Soviet Union.
—Davis Winkie, USA Today, 19 May 2025
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