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headache

[hed-ayk] / ˈhɛdˌeɪk /




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Or is it a financial and logistical headache?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Patients quickly develop a fever and headache and feel weak, and then rapidly progress to shortness of breath, chest pain, cough and sometimes bloody or watery mucus, according to the CDC.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Wet weather has drenched the Games since Sunday, another headache for organisers wrestling with complaints from teams about accommodation and transport.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

“You need to do the new search, so it’s a headache, and somewhere in the subconscious…people just withdraw.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

I had a headache because I had given half my breakfast to Maeve.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

His four-year-old is sick too, complaining of headaches and general weakness.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Basildon Hospital in Essex settled claims from 121 staff, including 85 midwives, who took legal action after reporting fatigue, anxiety, headaches and "brain fog" after the gas levels breached safety limits.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Those headaches are now at the courthouse door, presenting particularly unusual challenges for the justice system.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

Manganiello detailed debilitating abdominal pain, fevers, rashes, headaches, fatigue and ulcers in his digestive tract that caused bleeding and led to countless colonoscopies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

For example, the assassination of Franz Ferdinand that kicked off World War I had taken three weeks of negotiations and a lifetime of headaches, according to my mother.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin


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