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Recent Examples of ail
Noun
What’s more, the age-old phrase the team’s fans have used to describe Detroit’s recent ails – ‘SOL’ or same old Lions – seems to have been banished for now. Ben Morse, CNN, 17 Feb. 2024 In the age of generative AI, the theft of huge troves of medical information might be even more dangerous, as our health records wind up in data sets that enable off-the-books innovation in exploiting our ails. Steven Levy, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2024
Verb
With the ailing wagon boss strapped into the device, the doc begins slowly excavating. Matt Cabral, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2025 Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Kering plunged on Friday after the company announced that Demna Gvasalia would take the reins as new artistic director of its ailing Gucci fashion line. Karen Gilchrist, CNBC, 14 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ail
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ail
Noun
  • This ultimately translates into more people that will get infected with these diseases, with the potential of spreading it to all Americans, including White Americans in urban neighborhoods.
    Omer Awan, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Five to 10 percent of people with ALS have a family member with the disease.
    Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Because Congress never bothered to write a law to establish it.
    Jay Cost, The Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Chicago Bears - Will Campbell, OL, LSU Will Campbell has fallen a bit due to his shorter arm length, but that likely won't bother Ben Johnson.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In fact, there’s no medical terminology whatsoever for all the ailments your beloved child will introduce into your life.
    Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Being in debt is associated with other ailments, including back pain and obesity.
    Jeffrey Anvari-Clark, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • This abuse of immigration law should alarm us all, citizens and noncitizens alike.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
  • In response to Saturday's exchange of fire, the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, said it was alarmed by the possible escalation of violence in the area.
    Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Samuel aspires to become an infectious disease physician-scientist and minority health advocate, researching illnesses that disproportionately affect Native Americans and other minority groups.
    Victor A. Lopez-Carmen, MD, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Doctors have said his voice has been weakened by his illness.
    Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Crimping is the process of severing a crop at the base and laying it over to create a decomposing thatch/mulch layer for the garden without disturbing the soil.
    Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Over more than 1,000 pages, the report details disturbing trends of political manipulation and growing corruption as well as increasing harassment of journalists and restrictions on free speech provisions.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The economic ills felt by consumers will be purely in service of ensuring the most profitable companies in the world are never held to account.
    Andrew Leahey, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The symbolic surprise of the week came from Comme des Garçons Homme Plus, where the designer Rei Kawakubo startled the audience if only because this was really the sole show that seemed, through its clothes, to acknowledge the broader ills of the world.
    Jacob Gallagher, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • When Nintendo finally officially revealed the Switch 2 in January, one of our major unanswered questions concerned whether games designed for the original Switch would see some form of visual or performance enhancement when running on the backward-compatible Switch 2.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The rout also hit shares outside the auto industry, with investors concerned that Mr. Trump's trade war may cause U.S. households and businesses to freeze their spending.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2025

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