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Recent Examples of murrain
Otherwise nature is outraged, floods will again sweep the land and murrains strike our cattle.
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Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2016
Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for murrain
Noun
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He was hospitalized again for several days in March 2023, this time for a pulmonary infection.—
Henry Chu,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Apr. 2025
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Some of these projects supported research on AIDS prevention and HIV, alcohol use, and SARS-CoV-2 infection.—
Renata Daou,
Hartford Courant,
21 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Mahler died in 1911 from illnesses exacerbated by a heart condition, at just 50.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Apr. 2025
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Tocchet also announced Sunday that goaltender Thatcher Demko would be shut down for the season due to illness, which necessitated an emergency call-up of Nikita Tolopilo on Saturday.—
Thomas Drance,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Other disconcerting maladies included non-operable windshield wipers and a flickering water-temperature gauge.—
Basem Wasef,
Robb Report,
1 Apr. 2025
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Meanwhile, the outside world has no means to poke into the AI to ferret out those maladies.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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,
21 Apr. 2025
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That October, Néstor died of a heart ailment, and the next month Bergoglio was called to testify in front of a panel of judges about the abduction, more than thirty years earlier, of the Jesuit priests.—
Graciela Mochkofsky,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
Noun
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That sickness is caused by a virus typically spread by rats and mice.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
16 Apr. 2025
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And how people can like this guy is— that's a sickness, actually.—
Arick Wierson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Apr. 2025
Noun
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That said, the preview also shows Buck and Hen both screaming like someone died — so does someone? 9-1-1's contagion event continues Thursday at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.—
Patrick Gomez,
EW.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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The contagion cut through the fault lines of Liberian society.—
Edna Bonhomme,
Rolling Stone,
11 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Invasive species are often seen as economic blights.—
Zoë Lescaze,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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The shift began with the phylloxera epidemic, a blight that devastated European vineyards in the late 1800s.—
Rachel King,
Forbes.com,
12 Apr. 2025
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Despite his infirmities, Washington served his nation again by running for a second term.—
Michael Wilner,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Apr. 2025
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And yet Francis has never been shy about showing his frailty, age or infirmities in ways that seem unthinkable for public figures for whom any sign of fragility can threaten their authority and undermine their agenda.—
Nicole Winfield,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Mar. 2025
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“Murrain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/murrain. Accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
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