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Recent Examples of bedridden
After being bedridden for months, Bailey got a two-part surgery last March.
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Chris Hoffman, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2026
Throughout college, Reid’s medications provided fleeting relief, followed by relapses that left her bedridden at home.
—Jason Liebowitz, New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2026
The one room for a bedridden patient (only one is allowed in the home) had its own requirements, including an outside key access for the fire department.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2026
The slumberer stays bedridden for the entire performance.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 26 Jan. 2026
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Chris Hoffman, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2026
Throughout college, Reid’s medications provided fleeting relief, followed by relapses that left her bedridden at home.
—Jason Liebowitz, New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2026
The one room for a bedridden patient (only one is allowed in the home) had its own requirements, including an outside key access for the fire department.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2026
The slumberer stays bedridden for the entire performance.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 26 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bedridden
Adjective
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Working with his regular cinematographer Oleg Mutu, Loznitsa gives this prison — and authoritarianism itself — a sickly luster without ever denying its wretched stench.—
Tim Grierson,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Mar. 2026
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In a large, rather attractive room, five men sat around a table, all in military uniforms, except for one sickly old man.—
Christine Smallwood,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The next year, their uncle was arrested in the Vel d’Hiv roundup, and months later French police took their ailing paternal grandmother, Sheindléa Badinter.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
1 Apr. 2026
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Born in Mountain Home, Hartz returned to Idaho in retirement to help her ailing mother.—
Mark Dee,
Idaho Statesman,
28 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Physically frail, yet in full verbal command, Julian doesn’t talk to Lori so much as at her, pausing only to fire off questions that harden, in midair, into assumptions.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
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Meyerson had become frail and disoriented by the spring of 2019.—
Carol Marbin Miller,
Miami Herald,
2 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Garden centers aren't giving a refund for a dying or dead plant but rather a discount on a new purchase.—
Lauren David,
Southern Living,
17 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Because the price hikes were found to be imposed without providing customers with valid justifications, the court ruled that the new prices are invalid and ordered Netflix to refund affected subscribers.—
Scharon Harding,
ArsTechnica,
3 Apr. 2026
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The ruling makes those increases legally invalid.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Other social welfare programs have safety valves to protect weak, incapacitated or disabled clients from being exploited by people in power.—
Carol Marbin Miller,
Miami Herald,
2 Apr. 2026
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Prosecutors accused him of filming and sharing a video of an incapacitated 17-year-old girl in April 2009.—
Adam Reiss,
NBC news,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Bedridden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bedridden. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.
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