ill-being

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Recent Examples of ill-being Based on a dataset covering 34 countries from 2020 to 2023 from Sapien Labs’ Global Mind Project, the authors showed that ill-being is currently at higher levels at younger ages—and the trend is not a hump shape—across these countries. Deena Mousa, Scientific American, 12 July 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ill-being
Noun
  • Life was good, especially after the last three seasons of misery, when games at this time of year were meaningless aside from their impact on the draft lottery.
    Arpon Basu, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
  • For civilians, the unrelenting misery of the last 18 months has just got a lot worse – especially as no aid has entered Gaza for six weeks.
    Tim Lister and Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • How to sear into a reader’s brain the profound calamity of a dozen savage killings?
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Trump spoke before the worldwide stock market calamity finally got to him.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • His eyes filled with sorrow as his mom gave Lola all the attention.
    John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Emotions and sorrow were palpable even though Prine has been dead for nearly five years.
    Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025

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“Ill-being.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ill-being. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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