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distemper

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Recent Examples of distemper
Noun
In one case, a border collie was euthanized within a week of being adopted after it was diagnosed with aspiration pneumonia and distemper, prosecutors said. Sara Schilling, Sacramento Bee, 21 Jan. 2025 Ultimately, distemper went from being a widespread killer to a preventable disease. Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily, 15 Jan. 2025 Democratic dysfunction goes hand in hand with democratic distemper. John Micklethwait, Foreign Affairs, 29 May 2014 In addition to Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, the stray dogs have been implicated in cases of dog bites and rabies in people, and parvo and distemper in pets. Pien Huang, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for distemper
Recent Examples of Synonyms for distemper
Noun
  • Mike Peters, frontman of Welsh rock band the Alarm, who became as known for his three-decade struggle with cancer and fundraising efforts to combat the disease, has died, according to the BBC.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Fighting the disease for over 30 years, Peters and his charity fundraised and sought to raise awareness on new treatments for cancer patients.
    Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 29 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Still, researchers are clear to reassure people there is no need to be alarmed about the continent hollowing out or there being any sudden landscape changes anytime soon.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 19 Apr. 2025
  • While bombarded by public service announcements encouraging me to save the whales, feed starving African children, and conserve freshwater, none alarmed me quite as much as those that advertised the hole in the ozone layer.
    Lauren Stienstra, Time, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Pet owners should watch for signs of illness and consult a veterinarian with concerns, according to Douglas County health officials.
    Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The movie stars Rose Byrne as a mother struggling to cope with her child’s illness; in his dramatic debut, O’Brien plays her hostile therapist.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 25 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • This gorgeous option has distressed floral medallions that look lived-in for vintage charm, all without a steep price point.
    Clara McMahon, People.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Understandably distressed by the theft, SHERELLE protected herself by avoidance, and kept music listening to a minimum.
    Thomas Smith, Billboard, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • That October, Néstor died of a heart ailment, and the next month Bergoglio was called to testify in front of a panel of judges about the abduction, more than thirty years earlier, of the Jesuit priests.
    Graciela Mochkofsky, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Summary Celery has been used throughout history as a folk medicine to relieve many ailments.
    Hannah Coakley, MSPH, RDN, Verywell Health, 21 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • No doubt, climate change threatens to muck it all up, disturbing patterns that have existed for centuries.
    Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2025
  • This tactic—arresting judges for their courtroom decisions—has disturbing echoes in other countries where judicial independence has been undermined: in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, in Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey, and in other places where democracy has given way to executive supremacy.
    Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Those not employed were most commonly caring for a family member, attending school, or ill.
    KFF Health News, Oc Register, 18 Apr. 2025
  • In the meantime, the new administrators warn that the Kennedy Center is impoverished, that the facility has become shoddy and that some of its programming ill serves the American ideal.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow was popular enough that fans wanted a solo story, but the studio didn't bother to make it until her character was already dead in the major timeline, then skipped the theatrical release, which Johansson sued them about.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 19 Apr. 2025
  • So much so that Gillaspie didn’t bother to even grab a towel last summer when a pitching coach yelled into the visiting showers to alert him that Triple-A El Paso manager Pete Zamora needed to see him.
    Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2025

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“Distemper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distemper. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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