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sore

[sawr, sohr] / sɔr, soʊr /




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While UCLA’s home football attendance was an obvious sore point, the average turnout at Pauley Pavilion for men’s basketball games was not much better.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

So it’s unsurprising that race is a sore spot for JD Vance, and that he’s lashing out about El-Sayed’s pointed comments.

From Salon Sep. 4, 2026

For all the sore glutes and calves, what lingers most is the appeal of turning this into a weekend ritual.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

Misbah, a 23-year-old mother from nearby Pengayuan village, said her three-year-old daughter had developed "a cough, a sore throat and a runny nose" during the haze.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

I’m so happy, I don’t care about sore feet.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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

It can cause ulcers or sores around the animal's mouth and face, difficulties swallowing and breathing, fever and lameness, foetal deformities and stillbirths.

From BBC Nov. 29, 2025

Because it appears to accelerate repair, SerpinB3 could eventually be developed into a therapy for chronic, hard-to-heal wounds, such as pressure sores and other ulcers that close only very slowly over time.

From Science Daily Nov. 17, 2025

There was an unspoken rule in the Masters household: The deaths of his mother and sister were not to be talked about, because the subject opened sores that hurt for days.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

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

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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