1
: in an aching manner
achingly sad songs
2
: extremely, exceedingly
achingly complicated
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an achingly funny movie
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The Halftime Show production featured hundreds of background performers, and each of their looks were so different but so achingly familiar to me.
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Sofía Viera, Allure, 9 Feb. 2026
In the movie’s first dramatic scene, achingly redolent of memory, the brothers—the older is eleven, the younger eight—loll in front of their family’s house, snacking, grousing, playing with paper action figures, trying to fill the solitude and the silence around them with banter and bravado.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2026
In the years since the murder, Wade said that every milestone in his life has had a void, an achingly empty space where his mother should be.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
Wall was once just like the achingly young current Wizards’ core, just tapping into his immense talent, the future long and seemingly limitless.
—David Aldridge, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026
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Sofía Viera, Allure, 9 Feb. 2026
In the movie’s first dramatic scene, achingly redolent of memory, the brothers—the older is eleven, the younger eight—loll in front of their family’s house, snacking, grousing, playing with paper action figures, trying to fill the solitude and the silence around them with banter and bravado.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2026
In the years since the murder, Wade said that every milestone in his life has had a void, an achingly empty space where his mother should be.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026
Wall was once just like the achingly young current Wizards’ core, just tapping into his immense talent, the future long and seemingly limitless.
—David Aldridge, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026
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“Achingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/achingly. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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