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sore

[sawr, sohr] / sɔr, soʊr /




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But Hegseth is as popular in Congress as a canker sore on a first date.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

And all signs—general tiredness, a sore forearm, crow’s feet—were pointing old.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

France's online platform that allocates places in higher education, Parcoursup, is another sore point.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Debris-filled lanes are a sore spot with bikers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Nothing too much, because I was sore from my run-in with the poppet yesterday.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

I was told it had healed diabetes sores, infertility, a frozen shoulder, and the common cold.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 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

“If I lived in another country, my legs wouldn’t look like this,” she said, rolling up her pants to show the chronic sores on her calves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2026

This day, the first smallpox sores appear upon the sick.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Meanwhile, my chest is getting rawer and sorer.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2020

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

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

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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