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ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I could ask AI or Google it, but I rather ask another human who appears to be passionate about a word. Where else is this word used as you really only see it in the death throes context but what else could throes?

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SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Mostly I hear it in the idiom death throes, or in the throes of passion, but occasionally it pops up in other contexts to describe painful spasms, or difficult upheavals, like workers in the throes of economic turmoil, or the throes of childbirth.

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RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It’s not a pleasant word. It’s basically pain or difficulty.

Childbirth is another “in the throes of…”

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- ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I am in the throes of a meltdown today due to enshitification on the developer tools I use.
  
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  - RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    That’s a good use of it.
    
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bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Oh, y’know… 😏

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- ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Not following you. Can you rephrase?
  
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  - bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Orgasms
    
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    ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Ahaha. I guess?
    
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