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Recent Examples of achy The pressure provided on your legs helps with swelling and achy feet per the brand, which is especially helpful on long days of trekking up trails. Rylee Johnston, Travel + Leisure, 15 June 2025 There are several ways to relieve period cramps when that achy or painful feeling arrives. Wendy Wisner, Health, 28 May 2025 If your hands ever get achy after a hard day's work or just the passage of the years, the Bob & Brad hand massager is designed to provide a professional hand treatment at home. David Szondy, New Atlas, 17 May 2025 Best Amazon Comfortable Shoe and Clothing Deals When traveling on assignment, my first packing priority is always comfortable shoes that can keep up with my busy schedule and not leave me with tired, achy feet at the end of the day. Aly Walansky, Travel + Leisure, 24 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for achy
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Adjective
  • The spa menu boasts a long list of bodywork treatments options, including the fire & ice massage, which soothes sore muscles with a combination of hot stones and cooling recovery balm, facials and body scrubs using ingredients from the forest, and a fireside massage package for two.
    Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • Pairing cannabis with outdoor adventures not only amplifies your connection to the natural world but can also help with sore muscles, fatigue, and improving sleep in new environments.
    Matt Rozo, Mercury News, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • Coupled with a story line about digital avatars who seek to replace the humans in whose images they were shaped, the movie possesses an aching sense of oblivion.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 June 2025
  • Indeed, Macron has zipped furiously across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia all year, negotiating deals on climate, trade, military assistance, and peace, some of it in an effort to fill an aching vacuum left by Washington.
    Vivienne Walt, Time, 10 June 2025
Adjective
  • Their venom, similar to a bee’s or wasp’s, results in a painful, itchy pustule or blister on the skin.
    Gareth McGrath, USA Today, 28 June 2025
  • Once Schaefer’s emotional moment was done, the rest of the conversations ranged from mildly awkward to borderline painful.
    Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 28 June 2025

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“Achy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/achy. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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