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as in aching
causing or feeling bodily pain
my legs are sore after that long walk yesterday
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as in angry
feeling or showing anger
promise not to get sore if I tell you what I really think of your new hairstyle?
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as in cynical
having or showing deep-seated resentment
he's been sore ever since she insulted him
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as in terribly
to a great degree
I was sore afraid we'd never make it home
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as in swelling
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Recent Examples of sore
Tobias Burns,
CNBC,
24 June 2026
The difference in how much less puffy and sore my feet, ankles, and legs felt on the second flight was astounding.
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Sophie Dodd,
Travel + Leisure,
22 June 2026
Valeriya Safronova,
Vanity Fair,
19 Feb. 2026
Guys come up sore all the time.
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Matt Kawahara,
Houston Chronicle,
11 Feb. 2026
Casey Pinto,
The Conversation,
1 May 2026
Feeling a little funky, exhausted or sore can happen for a number of reasons, including perimenopause and menopause.
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Helen Carefoot,
Flow Space,
24 Apr. 2026
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Adjective
The pricing advantage has also been a sore spot for tech companies that have to buy it as a component.
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Tobias Burns,
CNBC,
24 June 2026
The difference in how much less puffy and sore my feet, ankles, and legs felt on the second flight was astounding.
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Sophie Dodd,
Travel + Leisure,
22 June 2026
Adverb
Toward the end, people grab partners and race around the ballroom in a gallop through a tunnel of arms, an exhilarating experience—especially in heels—that leaves the heart pumping and the quads sore for days.
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Valeriya Safronova,
Vanity Fair,
19 Feb. 2026
Guys come up sore all the time.
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Matt Kawahara,
Houston Chronicle,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
This sore may go unnoticed and resolve on its own.
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Casey Pinto,
The Conversation,
1 May 2026
Feeling a little funky, exhausted or sore can happen for a number of reasons, including perimenopause and menopause.
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Helen Carefoot,
Flow Space,
24 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sore
Adjective
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The homestretch of the drama, however, takes the story in a chilling direction, packing an aching quantity of feeling into a single glance at a security camera as someone climbs into a car and leaves the compound, never to be heard from again.
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Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain (1997) Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain is an aching, tender slow burn shaped by absence.
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The Commission ultimately left it at 400 feet, prompting an intense reaction from the angry crowd.
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Some of the women who were angry contacted the SFMOMA not simply to share feedback, but to try to ensure Bahr could never work with the institution again.
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Traditionally cynical and perceptive commentators—not to mention a lot of tired citizens—found themselves, in some accounts, overcome by an unexpected wave of patriotic sentimentality that washed away, at least for a moment, their gnawing doubts.
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Heston is at his most gleefully cynical as Robert Thorn, a police detective who lives and works in a New York City decimated by environmental deterioration and dwindling resources.
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Wonderfully and terribly, everything does happen for Maddie after her adoring bear of a husband, Jake (Eric Rahill), makes a cooking video of her that goes massively viral.
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Perhaps the biggest problem with this movie is that Supergirl (Helen Slater) seems terribly leisurely about her fateful mission.
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About 400 to 500 Americans died of measles each year, while about 1,000 experienced brain swelling and 48,000 were hospitalized, records show.
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There should be no pain or skin reddening during a proper session, and therapists avoid working over active swelling, infection or skin that’s undergone cancer treatment.
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Part wall wart, part magnetic wireless charger, the StandBy-ready PowerBug is about as unique as chargers come.
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The second type of polyp is small, wart-like and occurs in clusters.
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With Boston sealing the sweep on a game-winning single from Jarren Duran, a nightmarish, long weekend at Fenway Park came to a painful end for the Bombers.
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Remember, stretching should never be painful.
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The book-club members roundly disliked it, indignant that the character was being driven mad by perimenopause, as if hormone-replacement therapy didn’t exist.
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Judge Timothy Mazzei asked him Wednesday in a loud, indignant voice.
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“Sore.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sore. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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