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as in sick
affected with nausea after eating the last four pieces of the two-week-old pizza, he was feeling a little nauseous

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Recent Examples of nauseous Ganondorf possesses Zelda’s body in 2006’s Twilight Princess, turning her fair skin a nauseous, seafoam green. Ashley Bardhan, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2024 Researchers indicate that within one hour of drinking it, people may feel nauseous, vomit, and have stomach pain. Sherri Gordon, Health, 8 Sep. 2024 Not long after her mom's nudge, India began feeling nauseous and missed her period. Emma Aerin Becker, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2024 Upon regularly feeling nauseous after eating and later becoming anaemic, doctors ran blood tests on Robertson to determine the underlying cause. Tanyel Mustafa, refinery29.com, 3 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for nauseous
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  • Gazans cheer, blast music as Hamas conducts sick parade of hostages Hamas paraded Israeli hostages Eliya Cohen, Omer Shem Tov and Omer Wenkert in front of a cheering crowd Saturday, before releasing them after more than 500 days in captivity.
    Landon Mion, Fox News, 22 Feb. 2025
  • One family has a sick child who could be heard crying in the background during a call between Herischi and Panamanian officials.
    Yong Xiong, Michael Rios, CNN and Ivonne Valdés, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • The desire to avoid portraying her character’s actions as simply disgusting led de Van to play the lead role herself, in spite of the challenges that created for her as a first-time feature director.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Selena Gomez has called out 'disgusting' weight shame As a former child star who grew up in the public eye, Gomez has long been subjected to conversations surrounding her weight.
    Jay Stahl, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • For a large part, the Heat’s supporting pieces have been awful this season.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Hollywood continued to celebrate the fearless first responders who worked to save lives and property during the awful Los Angeles wildfires last month.
    Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 23 Feb. 2025
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  • That 2021 gloss on the queasy Death Wish power fantasy was brutish fun, thanks to Odenkirk’s devious performance and the full-contact action scenes.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Taking a very principled character and putting him in a job that is very morally queasy was something that felt like a good evolution in Season 2.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 21 Jan. 2025
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  • There are so many horrible things happening in the world.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Still, a light at the end of this very horrible long tunnel might be a bit more visible at this time.
    Greg Palkot, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2025
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  • Rosemary Farm in Santa Maria, California, has struggled to get by as bird flu ravages poultry populations across the U.S., sickening and killing birds and causing egg prices to spike.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Plastic straws were also noted sticking out of sea turtle nostrils, and sickening or killing seabirds, fish, manatees, dolphins and other marine mammals.
    Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2025
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  • Or the constitutional dystopia in which we are now caught, beside which even the ugliest onscreen villainy pales into insignificance?
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The advanced metrics paint an ugly picture for the Suns as well over that span: 114.0 OffRtg (11th), 117.3 DefRtg (27th), -3.2 NetRtg (21st).
    Evan Sidery, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
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  • The result was good for the Jayhawks, as the Cyclones shot a hideous 1-for-12 (11%) from long range.
    Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Rust is a big deal, as is the fact that many Panteras have been mangled by previous owners bestowing hideous enhancements (think bad celebrity plastic surgery) on otherwise desirable cars.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 17 Jan. 2025

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“Nauseous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nauseous. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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