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heartache

[hahrt-eyk] / ˈhɑrtˌeɪk /


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Australian rescue expert Arnold Dix, who has been supporting the operation remotely, told AFP that the rescue efforts were "back in miracle country" after a "week of 24/7 heartache".

From Barron's Sep. 4, 2026

A woman who welcomed a daughter after two pregnancy losses has said she wants others who face similar heartache to know "there is still hope".

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

In such moments, Ms. Smith offers her own translation of the strange and specific vocabulary of heartache.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

For years, I would come home from figure-skating practice bruised from falling, exhausted from trying not to fall and tender from the ambient heartache of being a teenager.

From Salon Jul. 28, 2026

He carried so much sadness and loneliness, so much heartache.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

Readers uninvested in Mr. Fukuyama’s crusade to vindicate himself—and to put naysayers in their place—will wish he’d spent more time on the details and heartaches of Japanese-American life in the years surrounding the war.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

McIlroy's win is both the most significant achievement of his 18-year professional career and the culmination of a journey that has forced him to rebound from a series of major championship heartaches.

From BBC Apr. 13, 2025

“No Other Land” superbly compresses four years into a series of heartaches that slowly escalate in severity.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 7, 2025

It sure was great — despite numerous stumbles, obstacles and heartaches — while it lasted.”

From Seattle Times Nov. 20, 2023

“Father says I must tell you everything, but the inside story of the life of the leper in a poor and sadly abandoned leper colony is too full of heartaches, misery, and want,” she writes.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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