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Recent Examples of adverse The adverse health effects of loneliness are comparable to smoking 15 cigarettes per day. Gail Matillo, Sun Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2025 In a first-in-human pilot study of nine participants, the drug was safe with no adverse effects. Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 11 Apr. 2025 While there's no magic cure for a hangover, tactics like drinking water, taking certain OTC pain relievers, resting up, and eating a nutritious breakfast can help alleviate or shorten the duration of a hangover's adverse effects. Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 10 Apr. 2025 The foreign material could pose serious adverse health consequences, leading the FSIS to consider the recall a Class I—the agency's highest level of alert. Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 7 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for adverse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for adverse
Adjective
  • If this leads to an acquittal, and to unfavorable comparisons to O. J. Simpson’s lawyers, Steel is unlikely to care.
    Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Further, parental reaction to the plan has also been unfavorable.
    Savanah Jackson, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Focusing too much on weight rather than taking a more holistic approach can be detrimental to the care of all patients.
    Hannah Yasharoff, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Expecting perfection, or guarding against our own humanity coming through, is also detrimental to our ability to be present for the good parts of the date.
    Myisha Battle, Time, 29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Nevertheless, the company foresees a negative effect of roughly $2 billion due to challenges from foreign currency translation in this quarter.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The financial services firm JPMorgan now forecasts negative U.S. growth in the second half of 2025, while projecting that China’s official growth will slip to 4.6 percent.
    Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Confusing a congressional edict to end segregation with DEI policies that have no genesis in the Black Civil Rights movement to end Jim Crow is historically ignorant, disrespectful, and harmful to the urgent need to focus on resolving continuing racial inequalities in public education.
    Raymond Pierce, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • For every person who happily sets 4:00 a.m. alarms on race morning, there’s another convinced the sport is too hard, too boring, or a waste of time, if not outright harmful.
    Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • John Shine described to me a research trip to the hostile mountain environs of Tasmania, where snakes stay under cover except for the 20 or 30 warm days each year.
    Stephen S. Hall, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Union members shared other experiences and stories, including those of an increasingly hostile work environment for some.
    Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 19 Apr. 2025
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  • More studies will have to determine just how damaging microplastics truly are to fertility.
    Melissa Willets, Parents, 24 Apr. 2025
  • But the uncertainty bred by the trade war is just as damaging to businesses’ bottom lines as consumers pull back their spending.
    Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 24 Apr. 2025
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  • Harvard-Westlake, last year’s Division 1 runner-up, is still dangerous with sophomore pitcher Justin Kirchner (7-0) and junior center fielder James Tronstein.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Activists have criticized clearing acres of trees, said that a firing range on campus could be dangerous and that the project would change the Matthews campus’ culture for the worse.
    Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 30 Apr. 2025
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  • President Donald Trump intends to completely reimagine U.S. trade relations with our closest partners and fiercest rivals, for better or worse.
    Charles Singh, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
  • As an attempt to derive meaning from a meaningless phrase —which was, after all, the user's request—that's not half bad.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2025

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“Adverse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adverse. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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