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
Good TV is the product of many hands working harmoniously to merge visuals, writing and performance into stories that breathe, laugh and ache along with you.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
In men, those white blood cells are more likely to produce a pain-resolving molecule that can quickly quell the ache, according to a recent study in the journal Science Immunology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
She wants GPs better trained to recognise symptoms sooner, and more research into the condition, stressing it is "not as simple as just having a tummy ache here and there".
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026
Grandmother’s comment had once made Nhamo smile, but now it only aroused a dull ache in her heart.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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However, around one in five people who are infected develop a fever and moderate symptoms such as body aches, vomiting and diarrhea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
In painful detail, she described the splitting headaches, body aches, chills, high fevers and hallucinations that had tormented her for days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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
About 20% of infected people will develop mild symptoms such as a fever, body aches and nausea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
When I wake up the next morning, my jaw aches like I spent the night clenching it, grinding my teeth together.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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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
But it’s worth stressing the takeaway: Redford was always deferential to his leading women, all of whom bloomed and ached in his absence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2025
"My heart ached, and I could only pray: 'God, please don't let that happen.'"
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2025
The bruise had ached all morning, its color deepening to shades of indigo.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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By the second day, her neck was aching and she was taking migraine medication to ward off headaches caused by intense microscope light.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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
At the film’s aching core is the romantic tether between the boys that refuses to die even in the face of gory attacks, painful betrayals and even uncertainty among the two of them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
My feet were still aching when I boarded my flight home the next day.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
We were on our hands and knees, aching all over, exhausted.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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