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as in disease
an abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning
before the days of modern medicine, when death remained a mystery, people said that someone died of a fever and left it at that
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as in frenzy
a state of wildly excited activity or emotion
in the fever of a political campaign a lot of things get said that never should have been said
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Recent Examples of fever
Three years later, our second baby got a fever and had to go to an emergency room in Park Slope.
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Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2025
Listeriosis can cause fever, muscle aches, headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance and convulsions sometimes preceded by diarrhea or other gastrointestinal symptoms.
—Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 27 Jan. 2025
Watson posits that both women have songbird fever from handling dead birds killed by Erica’s cat.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 26 Jan. 2025
Medical records showed that in the days after the injury, Ben was lethargic and had a persistent fever.
—Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2025
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Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2025
Listeriosis can cause fever, muscle aches, headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance and convulsions sometimes preceded by diarrhea or other gastrointestinal symptoms.
—Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 27 Jan. 2025
Watson posits that both women have songbird fever from handling dead birds killed by Erica’s cat.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 26 Jan. 2025
Medical records showed that in the days after the injury, Ben was lethargic and had a persistent fever.
—Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fever
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If the situation worsens, companies may have to source oranges from countries even farther abroad, such as Spain, Italy, Turkey, and India, where the disease is less pronounced.—
Yasmin Tayag,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2025
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The research revealed not only how this system is altered by the disease, but also found distinctive breathing patterns in affected individuals.—
Michael Franco,
New Atlas,
3 Feb. 2025
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The announcement left the basketball world reeling, as the magnitude of the swap sent social media into a frenzy, with reactions ranging from disbelief to heated debate.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
2 Feb. 2025
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Both stocks in recent months finally eclipsed their prior frothy record high set in the frenzy of the 2021 rally in unprofitable tech.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
1 Feb. 2025
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Missing doctor appointments, forgetting to take medications, and struggling to navigate the health-care system can make existing illnesses worse.—
Yasmin Tayag,
The Atlantic,
3 Feb. 2025
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Young kids with long COVID more likely to have headaches while teens struggle with fatigue: Study Long COVID most often occurs in people who had severe illness, but anyone can develop the condition, according to the CDC.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
3 Feb. 2025
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More than 140 officers were injured in the rampage.—
Mike Lillis,
The Hill,
23 Jan. 2025
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Guerrilla Games, the franchise's creator, is reportedly developing a multiplayer Horizon game that has survived Sony's recent rampage on live service games.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
21 Jan. 2025
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More news: Browns' Myles Garrett Speaks Out Following Shocking Trade Request Landon Dickerson and Cam Jurgens were both listed as full participants, which is huge news considering both were dealing with ailments leading into the NFC Championship game.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
6 Feb. 2025
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Details of the characters’ psychologies — Belle’s impulse to fake an ailment whenever she’s threatened, or Milla’s doubling down on pseudoscience to protect herself from facing mortality — are introduced, underlined, and then hammered over repeatedly.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
5 Feb. 2025
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The superrich have always wielded inordinate economic and social power and, as such, have plenty of historical ills to answer for.—
Brian Klaas,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2025
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The latest example is Tony Scholes, the Premier League’s chief football officer, who commented at a media event this week that officials may crack down on one of the modern game’s great ills: goal celebrations.—
Nick Miller,
The Athletic,
6 Feb. 2025
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There have been some reports that this year’s flu vaccine might be less effective than in previous years, which could explain the apparent high levels of sickness that are currently around.—
Tanya Lewis,
Scientific American,
4 Feb. 2025
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In season one, Petey starts showing signs of reintegration sickness in the second half of episode two and continues to do so throughout episode three.—
Erin Qualey,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2025
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“Fever.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fever. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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