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Recent Examples of ache
Noun
This throws off the natural alignment of your spine, which can potentially lead to aches and pains. Ashley Zlatopolsky, Architectural Digest, 17 Oct. 2024 Individuals experiencing a milder form of the illness typically report symptoms including fever, muscle aches, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
Verb
Customers and baristas alike commiserated on Reddit about the stomach aches that allegedly ensued after trying the drinks. Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024 These earplugs are best suited to side sleepers, who are most likely to find their ears start to ache with anything more substantial than a pure foam design. Follow me on Twitter. Andrew Williams, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for ache 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ache
Noun
  • Certainly there is beauty and awe to fill anyone’s soul, but does a chill draft blow through there as well, leeching ice into the spirit and sending a frisson of tingles down one’s spine?
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Any horror novel worth its salt should make the heart race and the spine tingle, as if a great, hairy spider was skittering along each vertebrae.
    Jordan Kopy, People.com, 18 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Matthews devotes one parenthetical sentence claiming rocket launches hurt coastal wildlife.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • The public pleas for testing are part of health officials’ efforts to halt the outbreak that has disproportionately hurt Native Americans in the Great Plains and Southwest.
    Kff Health News, Orange County Register, 13 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • But sometimes your best dinner-planning efforts can’t stave off those hunger pangs.
    Caroline Tien, SELF, 28 Oct. 2024
  • British Rating: 9/10 — Anyone who has ever experienced the vicious wild parakeets of London will experience a horrifying pang of recognition.
    Hannah Strong, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2024
Verb
  • While people, by and large, are more likely to have a job and more likely to have higher wages, that doesn’t mean there isn’t still pain in the labor market or within household finances, Gould said.
    Alicia Wallace, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
  • This approach has been used for spine pain for decades, but it is now being applied more widely to pain from other areas of the body.
    Rachael Rzasa Lynn, The Conversation, 25 July 2024
Noun
  • Nevertheless, the Bank of America analysis underscores the sting that inflation continues to have on consumers across income groups.
    Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 27 Oct. 2024
  • As a result, no pay hike can offset the sting of higher chicken prices.
    Nick Rockel, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • But Harmony Korine’s latest marries a first-person perspective to a barrage of other visual noise on screen, including icons, pop-ups, picture-in-picture, and a chat overlay, all accompanied by a throbbing non-stop score by British producer Burial.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2024
  • The washboard-like texture provides a light massage with every step, which felt especially good on day three of my training plan when my soles were throbbing.
    Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 13 Sep. 2024

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