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ache

noun as in sore feeling; dull pain

verb as in feeling soreness or dull pain, often physical

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A pretentious young critic for the magazine Cahiers du Cinéma who never takes off his dark glasses, even at the movies, and rarely stops smoking, he is aching to make a feature of his own.

Mpox can also cause a fever, headaches, muscle aches, back pain, tiredness and swollen lymph nodes.

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Fueling our mass mourning’s ache is a lack of knowing who will ignite the next blaze like the one D’Angelo sparked.

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She also has depression, for which she takes medication, and put the "normal aches and pains" down to running around after her "absolutely crazy" two-year-old son Sebastian.

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Legs are aching, and the crowd is sprawling back around a quarter-mile from the stage.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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