"sore point" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XVIII, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book II, page 337:",
          "text": "The affair of the chaplaincy remained a sore point in his memory as a case in which this petty medium of Middlemarch had been too strong for him.",
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          "ref": "1911 March, Jack London, chapter 6, in Adventure, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC:",
          "text": "It is a sore point with me, this being told what I am to do or not do by you self-constituted lords of creation.",
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          "ref": "2003 October 27, Adam Zagorin, Scott MacLeod, “So Who's Talking To Iran?”, in Time, archived from the original on 2011-01-20:",
          "text": "[T]he talks have touched on Iran's suspected nuclear-weapons program, its sponsorship of terrorism and other sore points.",
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        "An action, belief, or state of affairs which is an enduring basis for disagreement or dissatisfaction."
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        "(idiomatic) An action, belief, or state of affairs which is an enduring basis for disagreement or dissatisfaction."
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          "word": "bone of contention"
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          "word": "bone to pick"
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          "word": "point of contention"
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          "word": "wunder Punkt"
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          "roman": "bolʹnóje mésto",
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          "word": "больно́е ме́сто"
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