sore
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Only later did she realise she appeared to have a sore on her lip at around the time Magnolia was born.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
But although athletes feel less sore and perceptions of recovery are improved after a massage, objective measures of performance and muscle function are modest and inconsistent.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
Runners don’t get as sore, which is the body’s way of saying: Hey!
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
“And sweetest in the gale is heard; and sore must be the storm that could abash the little bird that kept so many warm.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
I sleep that night on their sofa, and by the next night, I’m back in the apartment, warming my fingers and soaking my cold, sore feet.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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Mowi’s salmon start their lives in land-based tanks, where they are vaccinated against various illnesses, such as pancreatic disease and winter sores.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Her symptoms got worse, with sores and blisters leaving her in constant pain.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
I was told it had healed diabetes sores, infertility, a frozen shoulder, and the common cold.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
And then, as winter turns to spring, I develop, for the first time, cold sores at the edges of my lips.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
When sores began to appear all over her legs that she refused to see a doctor for.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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All the time, the shoulder was holding up, but getting sorer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2015
Bradley Beal played 21 minutes but was ineffective, scoring just two points on 0-for-5 shooting as he still recovers from a sorer lower back.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2012
He was never champion trainer but a sorer point is surely his failure to win a Classic at Epsom, where he became notorious for his bad luck.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 8, 2011
Calmer and sorer, Stewart picked himself up and headed to the dressing room, perhaps cursing the pitfalls associated with the modern football boot.
From The Guardian ● May 14, 2010
It’s not any sorer than my quads and hamstrings.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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Inflation is the sorest point: Consumer prices were 3.5% higher in June than a year earlier, according to the Labor Department, versus a January 2025 inflation rate of 3%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
“Six” was on my docket in March 2020, and missing it when the pandemic shut down Broadway was one of my sorest disappointments in those first few weeks of lockdown.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2021
The United States is the biggest loser in raw dollars, but developing countries are the sorest victims, losing 5.8 percent of their total tax revenue rather than the 2.5 percent developed nations miss.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2021
But in this sorest storm, in this chillest land, there’s hope, the thing with feathers.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2021
My lungs are still burning, my throat raw, and my legs and arms are the sorest they’ve ever been.
From "Hurricane Child" by Kheryn Callender
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