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as in disease
an abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning
an 18th-century quack who specialized in those mysterious infirmities that are known only to the idle rich
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as in weakness
the quality or state of lacking physical strength or vigor
a period of infirmity left the athlete completely out of shape
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Recent Examples of infirmity
The scenario that would entail the greatest likelihood of radical change is a succession struggle that would occur if Xi were to pass away or resign owing to infirmity.
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Minxin Pei, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2020
Months later, and two days before the law was to take effect, Attorney General Mike Hilgers described those infirmities in an advisory opinion.
—Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Sep. 2024
Adding to the fun, Oliver suffers from face blindness, which the show visualizes, like each installment’s neurological infirmity, only selectively.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
McGahern’s novel is sure to leave the infirmities in.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2024
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Minxin Pei, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2020
Months later, and two days before the law was to take effect, Attorney General Mike Hilgers described those infirmities in an advisory opinion.
—Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Sep. 2024
Adding to the fun, Oliver suffers from face blindness, which the show visualizes, like each installment’s neurological infirmity, only selectively.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
McGahern’s novel is sure to leave the infirmities in.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infirmity
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Some people have trouble absorbing this vitamin due to disease, gastric surgery, or medication.Sohaib Imtiaz, Verywell Health, 11 Jan. 2025
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Hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs, possibly a million or more, were swept into camps and prisons, with former detainees reporting abuse, disease and, in some cases, death.Dake Kang and Huizhong Wu, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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But Price acknowledged that the case revealed multiple weaknesses in how police handled homicide investigations at the time, leading to widespread reforms that remain in place today.Michael Gordon, Charlotte Observer, 17 Jan. 2025
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But dunking has become another item on a laundry list of weaknesses for Williams to fix.Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025
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Especially in summer, heat illness has affected more than 30,000 people and caused hundreds of deaths in Florida.Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2025
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Patrik Laine missed a couple of games due to illness this week, but that does not seem to be a long-term issue.Chris Johnston, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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The fires have left Mayorga with a painful mix of anxiety, depression and exhaustion.Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
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And burnout isn’t just a trendy buzzword; this is a very real, very draining state of exhaustion that dims your spark.Ankur Bindal, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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Summary Celery has been used throughout history as a folk medicine to relieve many ailments.Hannah Coakley, MSPH, RDN, Verywell Health, 15 Jan. 2025
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Most common ailments aren’t connected to a single gene; polygenic risk scores aim to predict the lifetime likelihood of conditions, such as diabetes, in which many genes contribute to a person’s risk.Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2025
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At the center of these ills stands the island’s relationship with the mainland.Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2025
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The strict binary of this is man, this is woman has been responsible for a lot of ills.Lanna Apisukh, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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The shadow of death and debility haunted American women throughout the nineteenth century.Jenny Noyce, JSTOR Daily, 28 June 2024
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According to this view, the outside world has been generous to Africa, providing substantial aid in recent decades, leaving no excuse for the continent’s debility.Howard W. French, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015
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Highly pathogenic avian influenza can infect domestic poultry, resulting in high sickness and death rates, officials said, and in this current outbreak, cattle, cats and other mammals also are susceptible.Chuck Fieldman, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2025
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Some damages are tax-free under Section 104 of the tax code, but only physical injuries and physical sickness qualify.Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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“Infirmity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infirmity. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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