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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
  • Archer: Not having a rink in L.A. has been really detrimental to the skating community.
    Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Furthermore, the study highlights cultural contingencies, indicating that the detrimental effects of workplace aggression are amplified in cultures characterized by high individualism and masculinity.
    Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 15 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
  • Vermont shows just 25 percent approval and 75 percent disapproval—the most negative margin in the country.
    Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
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
Adjective
  • 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
  • More studies will have to determine just how damaging microplastics truly are to fertility.
    Melissa Willets, Parents, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Prioritising one competition in favour of another is a dangerous game to play in any case when the stakes are so high.
    Mark Critchley, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The company highlights one type of attack that is now targeting users and which is especially dangerous.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • 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 2 May. 2025.

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