sore
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Data centers have sparked opposition across the country while online “AI slop” and perceived threats to employment remain sore spots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
"We have to remove the band-aid and then look at the sore, the gaping wound that's present," Asare says about what he sees as real "reparations".
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
“Kneecaps are sore, shoulder is sore, hand is sore, wrist is sore,” Freeman said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Steel’s acquisition of a nonunion steel mill in Arkansas was a sore spot for the union that lingered for years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Between the floor and shoveling, I know he must be sore.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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
Patients also frequently dealt with stomatitis – painful swelling and sores inside the mouth – as well as diarrhea, nausea and vomiting.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 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
He spent the night awake, tormented by the pain of his sores.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
Calmer and sorer, Stewart picked himself up and headed to the dressing room, perhaps cursing the pitfalls associated with the modern football boot.
From The Guardian ● May 14, 2010
It’s not any sorer than my quads and hamstrings.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
Inflation is the sorest point: Consumer prices were 3.5% higher in June than a year earlier, according to the Labor Department, versus a January 2025 inflation rate of 3%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
“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
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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