headache

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Recent Examples of headache And in an era with pesky inflation headaches, California’s varied wage gains – especially, the bigger raises for the bigger paychecks – are one of the forces nudging up economic anxieties statewide. Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 11 June 2025 Migraine is a neurological condition that can cause intense headaches, nausea, and light sensitivity. Cathy Cassata, Health, 10 June 2025 People who live near the Salton Sea, many of them farmworkers, have complained for years that the stench, which tends to emerge most strongly in August and September, can give them headaches, nausea and nosebleeds. Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2025 Early symptoms resemble those of bacterial meningitis and can include headache, nausea, vomiting and fever. Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 9 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for headache
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Noun
  • Burgess and Eleanor’s View The most interesting part of our jobs is covering lawmakers as people.
    Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 17 June 2025
  • So, whether Amazon’s AI jobs shakeout turns out to be a painful retrenching, a gradual recalibration, or something else entirely, recent history seems to suggest the company, if nothing else, has the right man for the job.
    Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 17 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
  • Failing to measure and address these benchmarks can lead to silent brand killers.
    Liam Dunne, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
  • The series will look into the mind of the twisted killer, who was among the inspirations behind Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • His populist messaging and anti-establishment persona align with many voters’ frustrations with Washington, the Federal Reserve, and legacy media.
    Becca Bratcher, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
  • Wyndham Clark’s frustration about missing the cut in the 2025 U.S. Open reportedly spilled into the locker room this week.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 15 June 2025
Noun
  • President Donald Trump has indicated states should carry more of the burden, relieving the backlogged Federal Emergency Management Agency.
    Melanie Stetson Freeman, Christian Science Monitor, 20 June 2025
  • The Sunshine State—especially its southern region—has been brewing a condo crisis over the past year, as the coming into effect of a law requiring inspections and reserves for condo buildings has led to significant financial burden for owners.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • The Houthis, who are a part of Iran’s proxy network and who the regime supplies with weapons and intelligence, have been a thorn in Israel’s side since disrupting commercial shipping in the Red Sea at the start of the Israel-Hamas war in 2023.
    Zach LaChance, The Washington Examiner, 15 June 2025
  • But his days as one of five aldermen who said no to Daley’s infamous parking meter deal or a quixotic early thorn to Mayor Rahm Emanuel are long gone.
    Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2025
Noun
  • Most senior roles always require substantial effort to establish an actionable place at the executive table, but the lack of strategic integration across many companies has kept DEI leaders sidelined from core business operations.
    Oksana Matviichuk, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
  • Michael Manley, the prime minister at the time, had asked Bob Marley and the Wailers to play the Smile Jamaica concert in an effort to calm tensions in the country.
    Natalie Meade, Rolling Stone, 16 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 1 Jul. 2025.

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