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heartache

[hahrt-ayk] / ˈhɑrtˌeɪk /


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After processing the heartache of losing another parent in a different way, Tomlinson allowed herself to miss the good memories with her father and assuage any longing for revenge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Australian rescue expert Arnold Dix, who has been supporting the operation remotely, told AFP that the rescue efforts were "back in miracle country" after a "week of 24/7 heartache".

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

In such moments, Ms. Smith offers her own translation of the strange and specific vocabulary of heartache.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Foster told the court: "The heartache that we have gone through is immense."

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

We already know it would spare her some heartache.

From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour

Readers uninvested in Mr. Fukuyama’s crusade to vindicate himself—and to put naysayers in their place—will wish he’d spent more time on the details and heartaches of Japanese-American life in the years surrounding the war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Rather, Pelphrey’s delivery of that line – the entire dialogue he shares with Ruffalo’s scuffy agent, truly – is one of the saddest moments in a story that lives in its heartaches.

From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2025

McIlroy's win is both the most significant achievement of his 18-year professional career and the culmination of a journey that has forced him to rebound from a series of major championship heartaches.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2025

“Sun House” is Duncan’s seventh book, an epic tale spanning the lives, heartaches and triumphs of a menagerie of characters committed to building a loving community in contemporary America.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2023

“Father says I must tell you everything, but the inside story of the life of the leper in a poor and sadly abandoned leper colony is too full of heartaches, misery, and want,” she writes.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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