sore
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"My skin feels dull and textured and just looks more tired in general, and my chest feels heavier and sore."
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
But after my massage, I felt light and pliable, if also tired and sore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
It had the power to soothe the roughest of sore throats and quiet the phlegmiest of coughs.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
Also Wednesday, the team scratched shortstop Mookie Betts from the starting lineup because of a sore right wrist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
Still very sore from what had happened to him, he mounted.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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
Activated by the hormones of the menstrual cycle, these sores thicken and bleed each month, inflaming and scarring the surrounding tissue.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 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
Its long body was covered in disgusting sores and tumors.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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
“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
The Bruins spent Friday assessing which body parts were sorest and what to do about them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2021
They’re the sorest two eyes I ever seen in me life.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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