malinger

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Recent Examples of malinger The entire day felt dehumanizing, as if her nearly eight years with the company, her medical problems and her physical pain had been reduced to nothing more than malingering and scattered incidents of tardiness. Greg Jaffe, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2023 Goldstein, who did not return a message seeking comment, practices in Chicago and has lectured on the topic of malingering, according to a resume posted online. Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023 But when workers take advantage of the manager’s kindly nature to malinger or disrupt operations, the entire business is threatened. Bill Conerly, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2022 The decision against Robert Krebs came after a psychologist determined Krebs didn’t have a mental illness or cognitive impairment and was instead malingering to avoid prosecution for the robbery last year in Tucson. Jacques Billeaud, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2019 On Monday, prosecutor Stuart Silberg said Ms. Ortega could have been malingering, or faking her psychiatric state. Corinne Ramey, WSJ, 31 July 2017 The question is obviously especially consequential when deeming a person malingering means they could be put to death. James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 5 May 2017
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  • About 3 million workers were idled, and recovery has been mediocre at best.
    Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Hospitals are shutting their obstetrics units, and companies that sold baby formula are idling factories.
    Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
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  • Picture a disheveled gambler, with his empty pockets sticking out, trying to bum a smoke from someone on the Las Vegas strip.
    Jay Paris, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
  • When someone in the music industry told him that Deconstruction had already broken up, the news deeply bummed him out.
    Aaron Gilbreath, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2024
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  • The attackers disguise themselves as fake Google Ads login pages to fool advertisers, who are then phished for their account credentials.
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
  • However, others have questioned how she was so easily fooled.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
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  • Giving users more control is great as long as there's not too much potential to mess things up.
    Paul Monckton, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025

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“Malinger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malinger. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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