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heartache

[hahrt-ayk] / ˈhɑrtˌeɪk /


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Along the way, there would be great personal heartache.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 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

For years, I would come home from figure-skating practice bruised from falling, exhausted from trying not to fall and tender from the ambient heartache of being a teenager.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026

As a daughter of Aphrodite, maybe she could tell when somebody was struggling with heartache.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

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

“It tells me that all the time, effort, heartaches, soccer trainings, tournaments, bad and good days were totally worth it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2023

Several of the current England squad have experienced those semi-final heartaches but Bronze hopes they can use that to their advantage.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2022

“Some heartaches never quite heal, do they?” she said quietly.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry


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