sore spot
Example Sentences
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The fund’s poor performance has been a sore spot for BlackRock, though its roughly $350 million market value represents a negligible portion of the assets of the world’s largest investment firm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Few businesses are hiring, inflation is still a sore spot and households have cut back on spending.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 26, 2025
A sore spot in the third-quarter report was the company’s nutrition business, which sells the hydration drink Pedialyte, the adult therapeutic nutrition drink Ensure, and the infant formula brand Similac, among other products.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2025
Forest management is indeed a sore spot in California, where decades of fire suppression have allowed vegetation to build up, which is in turn acting as fuel for the state’s larger and more frequent blazes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2025
He stumbled backward again, rubbing the sore spot.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
