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Recent Examples of altitude sickness
It is considered an ancient remedy for altitude sickness and has other health benefits, like boosting energy, easing headaches, reducing fatigue and quenching thirst.
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Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
All in all, this is elevated cuisine without the altitude sickness.
—Paul Jebara, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2024
Their oxygen supply dwindled, producing a syndrome resembling altitude sickness, due to a miscalculation about photosynthesis.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
The buildup can lead to altitude sickness—the headaches, nausea, fatigue, and sleep disturbances that Kong and some of his colleagues experienced firsthand during their time in Tibet.
—Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 23 Sep. 2024
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Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
All in all, this is elevated cuisine without the altitude sickness.
—Paul Jebara, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2024
Their oxygen supply dwindled, producing a syndrome resembling altitude sickness, due to a miscalculation about photosynthesis.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
The buildup can lead to altitude sickness—the headaches, nausea, fatigue, and sleep disturbances that Kong and some of his colleagues experienced firsthand during their time in Tibet.
—Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 23 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for altitude sickness
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Transitioning from one gravity to another, such as from earth's gravity to weightlessness, can affect spatial orientation, head-eye and hand-eye coordination, balance and locomotion, and may cause space motion sickness, according to NASA.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
7 Mar. 2025
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By stopping a boat’s roll stone cold, and therefore making a day on the water a pleasure for those who suffer motion sickness (that’s about a third of the population).—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
14 Feb. 2025
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Use this after a night of one too many cocktails, or simply add to your in-flight water to prevent dehydration or mountain sickness.—
Krista Simmons,
Sunset Magazine,
4 July 2024
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By Martin Enserink, Science Photography by Tom Bouyer, Expedition 5300 Journalist Martin Enserink journeyed high into the Andes to write about research into the effects of chronic mountain sickness — traveling, effectively, into thin air.—
STAT staff,
STAT,
24 Dec. 2019
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The numbers made the Corby scandal the biggest child poisoning case since thalidomide, a drug that was marketed in the 1950s and '60s as a treatment for morning sickness and insomnia.—
Lynsey Eidell,
People.com,
28 Feb. 2025
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Improves Nausea and Digestive Health Ginger has been used for years to treat nausea from chemotherapy, morning sickness, surgery, and motion sickness.—
Lindsey DeSoto,
Health,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Altitude sickness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/altitude%20sickness. Accessed 20 Mar. 2025.
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