as in unfit
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Recent Examples of diseased
But Swift wasn’t dealing with literal disease on top of diseased relationships, so Halsey has got a few extra building blocks here.
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Chris Willman, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024
Remove dead, damaged, and diseased material right away.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Oct. 2024
To many at the time, gay meant perverted and—as Hujar and so many like him lay dying—diseased.
—Benjamin Moser, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
Summary Heart valve replacement is a treatment option for a diseased or damaged valve.
—Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 30 Sep. 2024
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Chris Willman, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024
Remove dead, damaged, and diseased material right away.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Oct. 2024
To many at the time, gay meant perverted and—as Hujar and so many like him lay dying—diseased.
—Benjamin Moser, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024
Summary Heart valve replacement is a treatment option for a diseased or damaged valve.
—Colleen Doherty, Verywell Health, 30 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for diseased
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In my view, Trump is grossly unfit to be president, in both mind and character — especially the latter.Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Nov. 2024
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The former Trump employee, who has a Harvard Law School degree, has campaigned against Trump during the election, branding him unfit for office.Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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Next on the agenda, Your Grace would like to see Grover Tully, Lord of Riverrun, bend the knee to Rhaenyra (though presumably, this will be a metaphorical knee as Grover is understood to be somewhat mentally incapacitated and definitely incontinent).Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 30 June 2024
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In March, 16 days after Sirica first treated the incapacitated red-tailed hawk, Paula Goldberg, former executive director of City Wildlife, opened the trunk of her Toyota SUV to reveal a small white box perforated with air holes.ByDina Fine Maron, science.org, 10 July 2024
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Mia agrees to let Max's ailing dog find solace with her newfound companion, in exchange for Max showing her the hidden gems of Seattle.Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2024
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Widespread concern The ailing property sector is widely believed to lie at the root of China’s numerous economic woes.Juliana Liu, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024
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All but one of those patients had been exposed to sick cattle or poultry on farms.Erika Edwards, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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There is no cure for a sick heart, definitely not in Ferrante’s universe, where desire burns down to an ember that lingers, waiting to be fanned and catch fire.Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
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Setting boundaries, removing yourself from unhealthy situations, or forgiving the version of you that said yes to those people or things is vital now in your process of moving on.Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2024
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My coping strategies were bad, unhealthy, self-destructive, and dangerous.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
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What begins as a calm and somewhat slow dissection of a characterless woman, quickly turns into a complete mental unraveling, a masterpiece in capturing the nightmare chamber that is an unwell woman with unchecked emotional traumas.B.J. Colangelo, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2024
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If a user shares private information, such as feeling unwell, should that information be passed on to a caregiver or doctor?Dor Skuler, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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Catherine’s husband has also been unable to hear her, deaf to anything but the gonging of his own jealous rage.Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Amid the heartbreak in Lewiston, where 18 people were massacred on the evening of Oct. 25, 2023, at a bowling alley hosting a youth night and a bar where deaf people were playing cornhole, the gunman's family contemplated remaining quietly in the shadows.Brenda Breslauer, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2024
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Even if the person never feels ill, that worker should be tested and given the antiviral drug Tamiflu to reduce their risk of ever developing symptoms or passing the virus to close contacts.Erika Edwards, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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In the 1997 black comedy The House of Yes, Prinze Jr. starred opposite Parker Posey, who played a mentally ill woman with a fixation on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.John Russell, People.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Diseased.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diseased. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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