headache

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Recent Examples of headache This patchwork of mandates and rules is creating legal uncertainty and compliance headaches at the exact moment American innovators need to move fast and scale. Kristen Waggoner, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025 The early onset of virus symptoms—headache, malaise, fatigue—can also be signs of a carbon monoxide leak. Isabella Milano, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 June 2025 After taking a daily 1.8 mg dose of liraglutide for three months -- the amount typically used to treat diabetes -- their average number of headache days per month dropped from 20 to about nine. Paul Hanona, ABC News, 20 June 2025 This is just the wrong place for trash fees to be charged and is pretty much guaranteed to create massive headaches for homeowners. Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for headache
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Noun
  • The letter said that the Senate’s version of the bill would cut more than $4 billion in Medicaid funding, with a loss of more than 16,000 jobs.
    Miriam Waldvogel, The Hill, 29 June 2025
  • Each job brought a new environment with different obstacles and new problems to solve.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • An American Werewolf in London' (1981) American dudes backpacking in England get attacked by a werewolf, one of them becomes a beastly nuisance on the full moon, and things get bloody freaky in old London Town.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 14 June 2025
  • In the longer term, the City Council would do well to reconsider enacting a city nuisance ordinance that would punish anyone rioting, looting, obstructing the public way, disrupting traffic, physically assaulting a police officer or even publicly calling for such behavior.
    Paul Vallas, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • The first film saw Pattinson's Dark Knight tangoing with the Riddler (Paul Dano), a serial killer plaguing Gotham City.
    EW.com, EW.com, 28 June 2025
  • Working with you seems complex Beyond confusion there’s another killer: complexity.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • The briefings were initially planned for earlier in the week but were postponed, to the frustration of the delegation.
    Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2025
  • San Francisco tied it in the top of the third inning when Wilmer Flores, a day removed from his frustrations against Miami, pulled a double down the left-field line that allowed Bailey to score.
    Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • This additional step would be a burden not only on families but on the IRS, which has been the subject of severe staff cuts by the Trump administration.
    Cory Turner, NPR, 20 June 2025
  • True spare capacity inside OPEC clocks in near three million barrels a day and sits inside the same blast zone, leaving diplomacy—so far untested in open conflict—to carry most of the burden.
    Guney Yildiz, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • The injunctions have been a thorn in the side of administrations from both parties, with aggrieved parties often filing in specific, favorable courts that would then issue nationwide stays on presidential orders.
    Peter Aitken Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025
  • For nearly half a century, Iran has been a thorn in the side of the world, killing and maiming American soldiers, butchering Israeli citizens, threatening its neighbors and fostering terror around the world.
    Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Botswana is also investing in mitigation efforts by phasing out hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and promoting various energy efficiency measures.
    Kyle Roderick, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • Fighting wildfires has long been a collective effort, with firefighting resources shared among states and even countries.
    Sarah Cutler June 28, Idaho Statesman, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • The fact Ishiba’s LDP faces an election on July 20 only heightens the BOJ’s worries about the political establishment striking back.
    William Pesek, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • But plenty of Republicans have expressed worries about the provision as well, imperiling its passage.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 25 June 2025

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“Headache.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/headache. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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