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Recent Examples of bedridden
Throughout college, Reid’s medications provided fleeting relief, followed by relapses that left her bedridden at home.
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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
The 5-year-old had been bedridden and never left the residence, WAFB reported, citing investigators.
—Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 17 Jan. 2026
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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
The 5-year-old had been bedridden and never left the residence, WAFB reported, citing investigators.
—Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 17 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bedridden
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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
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The Danforths, on whose property the new game takes place, are headed up by twins Ursula (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Titus (Shawn Hatosy), children of ailing patriarch Chester (David Cronenberg).—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2026
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Moore’s decision to court the Farm Animal Rights Movement and disparage the work of Maryland farmers appears less like a genuine moral objection to animal cruelty and more like a desperate attempt to recover momentum in his ailing, undeclared campaign for president.—
Torrey Snow,
Baltimore Sun,
18 Mar. 2026
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For all its public association with queerness, ballet remains largely committed to a frail, wispy femininity and a princely but muscular and explosive masculinity—with the stringent, often punishing body-shape standards to match.—
Chloe Angyal,
Time,
9 Mar. 2026
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Over time in 2025, Chandler and Webster said Acacio had started to appear frail and thin.—
Nathaniel Percy,
Oc Register,
3 Mar. 2026
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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
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Critics fear that if late counting goes away, potentially millions of legitimate votes could be deemed invalid.—
Michael Smolens,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Mar. 2026
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Changes to the hepatitis B vaccines for newborns and COVID-19 shots made via earlier ACIP votes were deemed invalid.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
22 Mar. 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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Not have been declared by a court to be either totally mentally incapacitated or partially mentally incapacitated without the right to vote.—
Sarah Bahari,
Dallas Morning News,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Bedridden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bedridden. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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