backaches

plural of backache

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for backaches
Noun
  • Time to let go of Wi-Fi headaches, and hold on to smooth streaming with the Google Wifi Mesh Router.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Ear seeding, an acupressure technique used in traditional Chinese medicine, is used to alleviate anxiety, headaches, and pain.
    Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Tylenol is used to treat a several conditions, such as mild to moderate pain, fever, headaches, muscle aches, toothaches, backaches and colds.
    Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Like regular depression, SAD can cause negative feelings like hopelessness, worthlessness, irritability, and guilt; fatigue or reduced energy; a loss of interest in hobbies and activities; and even physical aches and pains (including headaches, cramps, and digestive problems).
    Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Symptoms of listeriosis include fever, muscle aches, headache, stiff neck, loss of balance and convulsions.
    Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Aches and pains don’t compare to the agony of an unrealized dream.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Such pleasurable pains, at their most chronic, or their most carnal, can keep Lang occupied for the length of a stanza.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • These pangs are only compounded by the cliffhanger that concluded Season 2, in which President William Rayburn (Michael McKean) suffered a fatal heart attack and elevated his vice president, Grace Penn (Allison Janney), to the top of the call sheet.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Sharp cracks of gunfire pierced the morning air, loud, jarring pangs that echoed off the concrete.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Their party has been in the state house and has been faced with longstanding gripes about high taxes -- income and property taxes -- in New Jersey, as well as the high costs overall and of housing.
    Deputy News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Labor In a section of the report focused on workers’ rights and safety, the NCP reiterates its gripes about lack of supplier audit documentation and adherence to local law rather than international standards.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Backaches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backaches. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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