ache
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"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
Arnaldi described how he became ill on Thursday night, waking up with stomach ache at about 1am.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
Gnawing, almost unbearable heartbreak acts as the catalyst for a layered analysis of the ways humans — or, in the case of “The Sheep Detectives,” humans and their woolly friends — ache to forget.
From Salon ● May 25, 2026
She presents her daughter’s sudden death in crisp, often tart prose that cannot mask the ache that lurks beneath the surface.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
I groaned as the heavy ache in my limbs crawled into my spine, seizing my lungs in an icy grip.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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“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
Suede frontman Brett Anderson describes the band's 10th album as "broken music for broken people", and the music aches for connection in a technological age that feels increasingly disconnected.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Less common symptoms are vomiting, body aches and low-grade fever.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Common symptoms include fever, headache, muscle aches, and abdominal pain.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 22, 2026
The aches in her joints reminding her that she was still a few hours shy of a complete healing.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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She wrote that her heart ached most looking at a poster her three children made when they were young.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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
I told the farmworkers how after only two days of work last week, my lower back and my forearms ached.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2025
"My heart ached, and I could only pray: 'God, please don't let that happen.'"
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2025
But my burden was still heavy, and my legs and back already ached.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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The morning after losing to Federer, an aching Willis limped to the shower at 4:30am to get ready for an interview on ITV's Good Morning Britain.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
It seemed like the set was closing with “In the Dark,” an aching ballad from their Venturing side project, plainly declaring “I still dream of us” through a fog of effects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
My feet were still aching when I boarded my flight home the next day.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
In the morning—before my aching knee and bulging blisters relegated my saunter to a limp—a 32-mile walk around Manhattan sounded like a good way to spend the first Saturday in May.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
I stopped to rest my aching legs and sat down on my trunk along the roadside.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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