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sore

[sawr, sohr] / sɔr, soʊr /




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Freddie Freeman was out of the lineup because of a sore right knee for the second straight game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman returned to the lineup Saturday after two games off to rest his sore right knee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

Pharmacists can already prescribe medication for seven conditions - sore throat, earache, sinusitis, shingles, impetigo, infected bites and urinary tract infections.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

So it’s unsurprising that race is a sore spot for JD Vance, and that he’s lashing out about El-Sayed’s pointed comments.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

Very heavy, and the eight kilometers back to the city leave me sore and aching.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

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

The biotech’s experimental cancer treatment is a genetically engineered version of the Herpes Simplex Virus type 1, the same virus that causes cold sores.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

The boards also noted that he had permanent brain damage and had suffered huge bed sores.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2026

When sores began to appear all over her legs that she refused to see a doctor for.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

All the time, the shoulder was holding up, but getting sorer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2015

He's a bit sore, even sorer that there's no free-kick, but fine to continue.

From The Guardian ● May 6, 2013

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

It’s not any sorer than my quads and hamstrings.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

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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