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as in illness
the condition of not being in good health
Her symptoms included fatigue and general malaise.
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as in fear
a general feeling that things are bad or wrong
They blame our modern malaise on overuse of technology.
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Recent Examples of malaise
The sequence that enabled Crystal Palace to extend Chelsea’s winter malaise into 2025 unfolded with grim inevitability in the 82nd minute at Selhurst Park.
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Liam Twomey, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
Most commonly, signs and symptoms of malaria include fever, headaches, and general malaise.
—Dave Wessner, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
What Happens Next Accompanying economic malaise is the continuing decline in the number of births in the country, despite a slew of government policy changes and some of the world's most generous parental leave entitlements.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
Conceived during an administration often synonymous with malaise elevated to a kind of national mood lighting, the department emerged as a federal colossus, ostensibly designed to manage the nation’s educational system with promises of equity, excellence, and upward mobility.
—Michael S. Rose, National Review, 4 Jan. 2025
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Liam Twomey, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
Most commonly, signs and symptoms of malaria include fever, headaches, and general malaise.
—Dave Wessner, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
What Happens Next Accompanying economic malaise is the continuing decline in the number of births in the country, despite a slew of government policy changes and some of the world's most generous parental leave entitlements.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
Conceived during an administration often synonymous with malaise elevated to a kind of national mood lighting, the department emerged as a federal colossus, ostensibly designed to manage the nation’s educational system with promises of equity, excellence, and upward mobility.
—Michael S. Rose, National Review, 4 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for malaise
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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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Interview ‘The Inexplicable Facets of Living in a Human Body’: An Interview with Emma Bolden Emma R. Cohen The author of The Tiger and the Cage on writing about her hysterectomy, the absurdities of medical metaphor, and the illness narratives that liberate and limit us.Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025
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The bitcoin price dropped to around $92,000 per bitcoin, restarting a sell-off that had lost steam earlier this week amid fears of a looming bitcoin price crash.Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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Two donors traveling with the program faced a deeper fear, grappling with the reality that their home in the fire zone might not withstand the flames — a fear later confirmed.Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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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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Trump has also expressed opposition to a looming ban on TikTok after earlier having supported a law requiring its Chinese parent company to divest its U.S. operations over national security concerns.Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 17 Jan. 2025
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Where would it be based? Lazarus sought to assuage some of those concerns in the Tuesday morning meeting.Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2025
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This fluctuation sets recurring dreams apart from bad dreams triggered by post-traumatic stress disorder, a psychological condition in which people relive specific memories from their waking life with far less variation while asleep.Amanda Heidt, Scientific American, 14 Jan. 2025
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Decades of research into how individuals and crowds actually behave – as well as what drives them into disorder and violence – have debunked these claims.Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Jan. 2025
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The situation caused Campbell a lot of anxiety, but became a pivotal shift in her perspective.Kait Hanson, Glamour, 18 Jan. 2025
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Then the widespread anxiety spurred by a wave of high-profile robberies and the deadly home-invasion of Jacqueline Avant.Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Jan. 2025
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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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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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“Malaise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malaise. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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