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
Arnaldi described how he became ill on Thursday night, waking up with stomach ache at about 1am.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 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
It was like he had been standing for so long, ignoring the ache in his knees and ankles, and now, finally able to sit down, felt every pain at once.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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You may also get a mild fever, nausea, headache or muscle aches but these symptoms should disappear after one or two days.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 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
The Gibbses don’t like to focus on their aches and pains as they age.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
The researchers emphasized that their work focuses only on serious muscle disorders that result in hospital admission or death, not the milder muscle aches and pains that some people experience.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 30, 2026
Tata was sometimes dependable, but just as often she was incoherent, or laid up with aches and pains.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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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
Those ached more than stung and left me completely voiceless for the following 24 hours.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026
Another exam taker, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal, said he was exhausted and his head ached after experiencing multiple glitches Wednesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
At school his back ached from sitting in a stiff chair, and the desks were so rickety it was a challenge to write neatly.
From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins
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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
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
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
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
She believes, down to her aching bones, that God won’t give her anything she can’t handle.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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