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The panic that seized [Lebanon] is really hard to describe because we've been through so much already.
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The speaker says the panic in Lebanon was so intense that ordinary words do not fully capture it. The phrase “we’ve been through so much already” adds a sense of accumulated hardship, making this new fear feel especially difficult to express and endure.
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