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From that point in the novel to its wrenching end, June searches for her baby with the passionate abandon of a first-time mother and the aching hunger of every mother separated from her child.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
But Pasbar has followed events in Iran closely, his heart aching as he watched the recent crackdown on protests until he couldn't bear it any longer.
From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026
That brief explanation understandably underplays the aching sadness that smoulders under the surface of his songs.
From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026
This doesn’t mean they’re secretly aching to become “tradwives.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026
The same hostile roof now again rose before me: my prospects were doubtful yet; and I had yet an aching heart.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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