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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
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Pregnant women can transmit the infection to their unborn babies, potentially leading to lifelong health problems with the brain, kidneys or heart.—
Hanna Ziady,
CNN,
25 Jan. 2025
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Home tests cannot detect all bacteria or infections.—
Mark Gurarie,
Verywell Health,
24 Jan. 2025
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The ongoing outbreak in animals has also led to at least 67 human cases of bird flu, with all but one causing mild illness.—
Emily Mullin,
WIRED,
22 Jan. 2025
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The event supports families whose children are suffering from life-threatening illnesses, diseases, and disorders.—
Ut Community Press,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Jan. 2025
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Another facet is that spending does at times provide a sense of relief from stress, sadness, boredom, and other maladies.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
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The Texas Compassionate Use Act permits the sale of marijuana products to qualified consumers with maladies like MS and cancer.—
John Burnett,
NPR,
13 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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The program will grant them access to insurance for sickness and maternity, work risks, disability and life, retirement, and for severance in advanced age and old age.—
Fernanda González,
WIRED,
22 Jan. 2025
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Outside, in the buttery December sunlight, Rowan and Amelia vowed to cherish each other always, in sickness and in health, in poverty and wealth.—
Becca Andrews,
Them,
13 Jan. 2025
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Genesis, once a business at the heart of DCG, was among the multiple casualties in the industry contagion set off by the collapse of FTX.—
MacKenzie Sigalos,
CNBC,
17 Jan. 2025
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Maintaining composure under stress can prevent emotional contagion, where negative emotions spread throughout the group.—
Scott Hutcheson,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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Rice seedling blight is a disease caused by the toxic by-product of a wild, endosymbiotic affair.—
Molly Herring,
WIRED,
26 Jan. 2025
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Petal blight is the principle pathogenic scourge of camellias.—
Joshua Siskin,
Orange County Register,
16 Jan. 2025
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Is Jill Biden Edith Wilson, an overprotective First Lady clinging to power in the face of her husband’s obvious infirmity?—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
13 July 2024
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His zeal seemed even stranger when juxtaposed with a sensible approach to my own infirmities.—
Kayla Aletha Welch,
Longreads,
19 Nov. 2024
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“Murrain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/murrain. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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