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My feet were still aching when I boarded my flight home the next day.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026
My knee was aching, likely a callback to surgery at 16 to repair torn ligaments.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Markets finally got the cease-fire they have been aching for, and the subsequent relief rally was fast, furious, and jubilant—no matter that the truce is temporary and fragile.
From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026
At 21, wanderlust — that aching desire to escape to somewhere else — took hold of Elizabeth Short.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026
“Oh my aching ear. Father Abbot, you wouldn’t see a poor son of the Spike suffering like this without a drop of last October’s nutbrown ale to wet his parched gullet,” he pleaded.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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