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as in illness
the condition of not being in good health
she was plagued by sickness most of her adult life
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as in disease
an abnormal state that disrupts a plant or animal's normal bodily functioning
a sickness that resulted in the death of millions of the nation's elm trees
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as in nausea
a disturbed condition of the stomach in which one feels like vomiting
the sickness that many women feel during the early months of a pregnancy
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Recent Examples of sickness
This can lead to extreme sickness, weakness, and even paralysis.
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Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 26 Dec. 2024
The intense stomach pain, rushing to the toilet and feeling relegated to bed keeps just about everyone out of commission for the hours or days the sickness lasts.
—Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2024
Furthermore, these drugs reduce deaths and sickness from heart attack and other cardiovascular outcomes by up to 20%.
—Jon Haworth, ABC News, 26 Nov. 2024
Researchers say there's consistent evidence that eating more of these foods is correlated with sickness, including mental health struggles.
—Andrea Muraskin, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024
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Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 26 Dec. 2024
The intense stomach pain, rushing to the toilet and feeling relegated to bed keeps just about everyone out of commission for the hours or days the sickness lasts.
—Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2024
Furthermore, these drugs reduce deaths and sickness from heart attack and other cardiovascular outcomes by up to 20%.
—Jon Haworth, ABC News, 26 Nov. 2024
Researchers say there's consistent evidence that eating more of these foods is correlated with sickness, including mental health struggles.
—Andrea Muraskin, NPR, 31 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sickness
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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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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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She was sent back to the recovery center housing her with pain and nausea medications.David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 15 Jan. 2025
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There might be even side effects of eating your placenta, including nausea and hot flashes.Christina Montoya Fiedler, Parents, 14 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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At the center of these ills stands the island’s relationship with the mainland.Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2025
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The strict binary of this is man, this is woman has been responsible for a lot of ills.Lanna Apisukh, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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Before departure, during an unexpected night apart, vaccine side effects strike —fevers, fainting and hallucinations.Leo Barraclough, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
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On Tuesday, January 7, the 40-year-old former Fashion Police co-host took to her Instagram Story to share her health struggles, revealing a 100-degree fever.Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
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“Sickness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sickness. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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