as in ache
a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body
those hunger pangs that strike you in the middle of the afternoon
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Recent Examples of pang
Florence O'Connor, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2024
Yet he seems afflicted by pangs of conscience over the uses to which his fans put his fame—and his efforts to escape from it involve making use of it again.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2024
Dylan Owens, The Know, 16 Feb. 2017
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Noun
Although, after trying on a few classic white dresses to appease her grandmother, Alemany felt a small pang of temptation for a more traditional bridal look.
—Florence O'Connor, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2024
Yet he seems afflicted by pangs of conscience over the uses to which his fans put his fame—and his efforts to escape from it involve making use of it again.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2024
Verb
Its sonic trappings are in vogue, but thanks in large part to front-woman Fox Rodemich’s memorable voice, which pangs around the record like a cave bellow, there’s an outlying classic quality to these songs.
—Dylan Owens, The Know, 16 Feb. 2017
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People who aren’t pregnant can expect fever, muscle aches and fatigue that feel like the flu, headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance and seizures.Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2024
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Some individuals may also develop fevers, body aches and other flu-like symptoms.Katia Hetter, CNN, 25 Oct. 2024
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While people, by and large, are more likely to have a job and more likely to have higher wages, that doesn’t mean there isn’t still pain in the labor market or within household finances, Gould said.Alicia Wallace, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
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This approach has been used for spine pain for decades, but it is now being applied more widely to pain from other areas of the body.Rachael Rzasa Lynn, The Conversation, 25 July 2024
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Certainly there is beauty and awe to fill anyone’s soul, but does a chill draft blow through there as well, leeching ice into the spirit and sending a frisson of tingles down one’s spine?Phil Plait, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2024
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Any horror novel worth its salt should make the heart race and the spine tingle, as if a great, hairy spider was skittering along each vertebrae.Jordan Kopy, People.com, 18 Oct. 2024
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Since the stinging defeat in the courts, at which details emerged of government security forces downplaying the Bundys’ legitimate concern for their own safety when federal sniper units encircled the family, Washington and its agencies let the Bundys graze at will and without charge.Matt Thompson, SPIN, 5 Nov. 2024
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Perhaps cricket can stomach that axing, but potentially not being part of the 2026 Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan, will sting.Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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But now the Republicans may be feeling a twinge of Vance-itis, because swing voters may not be as thrilled with mini-Trump as Trump is.Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2024
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Around the start of a new year, a sudden twinge of urgency boils in the pit of our stomachs for something new and fresh.Samantha Sasso, refinery29.com, 25 Jan. 2024
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In postwar California, the Red Light Bandit pricked a governor’s conscience.Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2024
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During this test, a healthcare provider pricks your skin with a small amount of an allergen.Daniel More, Verywell Health, 19 Sep. 2024
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Another execution attempt of Creech, 74, had been scheduled for Nov. 13 — coincidentally, the same date in which the four University of Idaho students were fatally stabbed in 2022 in an off-campus apartment house.Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Samuel Paty, 47, was stabbed repeatedly in 2020 outside his school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine near Paris by an 18-year-old assailant of Chechen origin, then decapitated, days after showing his pupils the caricatures.Reuters, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
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Matthews devotes one parenthetical sentence claiming rocket launches hurt coastal wildlife.Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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The public pleas for testing are part of health officials’ efforts to halt the outbreak that has disproportionately hurt Native Americans in the Great Plains and Southwest.Kff Health News, Orange County Register, 13 Nov. 2024
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“Pang.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pang. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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