ailing

adjective

ail·ing ˈā-liŋ

Synonyms of ailing next

: having or suffering from an illness or injury

providing care for his ailing mother

trying to rest her ailing knee/back

a person in ailing health

—often used figuratively

an ailing companyan ailing economy

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Not long after, UBS was forced to rescue its ailing Swiss peer Credit Suisse in a $3.2 billion deal that required billions of francs in Swiss taxpayer money to help stabilize markets. —

Will Daniel, Fortune, 11 May 2023 Major stock indexes hardly budged Monday after regulators seized ailing lender First Republic Bank and agreed to sell the bulk of its operations to JPMorgan Chase. —

Ryan Dezember, wsj.com, 1 May 2023 The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is likely to take over the ailing regional bank, CNBC reported, noting that hopes are fading that other lenders could step in to rescue First Republic. —

Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2023 In this play by Jose Rivera, the year is 1983, and elderly and ailing parents Ramon and Dolores (Luis Negron and Sara Burd) plan to return to their native Puerto Rico. —

BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023 In a study published in Nature in December 2020, David Sinclair, a director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging Research at Harvard Medical School, along with colleagues, partly restored vision in middle-aged and ailing mice by reprogramming their gene expression. —

New York Times, 28 Apr. 2021 The key to Daco’s recession forecast is the ailing American consumer. —

Will Daniel, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2023 The longtime bank executive spent his Tuesday making amends with angry shareholders after the ailing Swiss lender required an emergency rescue last month that left investors nursing heavy losses. —

Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 5 Apr. 2023 Specifically, the status of Houston’s Marcus Sasser’s ailing groin. —

Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 17 Mar. 2023 See More

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