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plural of ail

ails

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verb

present tense third-person singular of ail

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of ails
Noun
City may well have believed that a summer break would cure their ails and time would simply consign last season’s mid-season collapse to room 101, but the rest of the league does not forget. Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2025
Verb
Naming what ails you is not the same as overcoming it. Hena Bryan, Refinery29, 26 Aug. 2025 No, this is not an instant fix for everything that ails Bungie. Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025 Yordan Alvarez’s potential return by the end of this week does offer hope for a turnaround, but Alvarez can’t mask everything that ails this teetering team. Chandler Rome, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025 But Buttigieg might not provide the cure for what ails the party, political observers say. Amie Parnes, The Hill, 1 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ails
Noun
  • And, in the course of the novel, the characters do, in fact, die, one after another, but mostly from the ailments of old age.
    Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The partnership tried to play through the ailments, but the results weren’t materializing for most of the year.
    The Athletic Tennis Staff, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In New York, there’s no worry; no one bothers us.
    Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Fox News' Health newsletter brings you stories on the latest developments in healthcare, wellness, diseases, mental health and more.
    Staff, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Will eradicated diseases make a comeback if vaccination rates decline?
    Lily Altavena, Freep.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • What worries health advocates most is how their region, which drew an outsized benefit from Medicaid expansion, is now vulnerable to an outsized hit.
    Chris Kenning, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Luke Tilley, chief economist at Wilmington Trust, worries a downside surprise is coming in the jobs data.
    Sarah Min, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In their assessments, desegregation and the passage of time have cured all of America’s racial ills.
    Time, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Macbeth, also an unstable Scottish king, blames the witches for the ills caused by his own murderous decisions.
    Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • One set of details concerns the 1960s.
    Brian Domitrovic, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Once case, brought by Florida mother Megan Garcia, concerns the suicide of her 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • These rules, enforced by the state Department of Health, are designed to prevent outbreaks of contagious illnesses that once posed widespread threats.
    Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Public records and lawsuits show that many in-custody deaths involved serious health care lapses — medication being withheld, delayed care and failure to monitor people with serious illnesses.
    Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But Democratic leaders said the plan distracts from more urgent legislative priorities and is unlikely to move forward.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • In the New York Times, Schmidt—yes that same guy who was talking up AGI in April—urged Silicon Valley to stop fixating on superhuman AI, warning that the obsession distracts from building useful technology.
    Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2025

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“Ails.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ails. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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