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ache

[ayk] / eɪk /


VERB
feeling soreness or dull pain, often physical
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Still, her transformation of Parton’s clouded sunshine into a feral ache is stunning.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

“You were our hero and our hearts ache in your absence. We love you. We miss you.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

"It's tough work... the hardest part is carrying the seaweed back. It's very heavy and your shoulders ache afterwards."

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

Mr. Barragán, a reporter and researcher for the New York Times based in Madrid, is good on the small ache that makes the whole enterprise possible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

Our thighs and knees ache from going downhill, stepping, sliding over rough terrain.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

The daughter of another medbed believer recalled her mother’s words: We won’t have those aches and pains anymore; your dad’s heart will be better.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

The team, in conversation with Ohtani, failed to manage his workload and aches and pains in a way that would be sustainable for more of the year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

“There’s something fun about conflating the physical aches and pains of middle age with the more metaphysical aches and pains of middle age,” says Tropper.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

These include repeatedly waking up throughout the night to relieve himself and "stomach aches real bad".

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

What private aches nagged him beneath that placid demeanor, none could say.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Her mother ultimately relented and let her daughter attend art school, but Kusama ached to stretch beyond the country’s traditional Nihonga painting style.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Before Edward and Bella took over the world, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” viewers ached for David Boreanaz’s Angel and James Marsters’ Spike, centuries-old bros who fall for a very special high school blonde.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

During the workshops Rice says her hands cramped, her back hurt and her feet ached.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025

"My heart ached, and I could only pray: 'God, please don't let that happen.'"

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2025

His bones and muscles ached from the twenty-mile walk.

From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis

My aching nostalgia isn’t limited to how the White House used to operate.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

As the Aedes aegypti mosquito expanded its range across more of the Americas, it brought with it the delirium, jaundice, and aching joints of yellow fever.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

"My shifts at work landed on the same days, too. During my morning shower, I felt faint; I had to be realistic and call in sick. My body was completely exhausted, aching and cramping."

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Plus, Jessie, still voiced with such beautiful feeling by Joan Cusack, owns “Toy Story 5,” with the movie even revisiting the aching piano notes of “When She Loved Me.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

“A Fflam never falters! Though what my aching bones might do is another matter!”

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander




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