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Recent Examples of car sickness
For some, the trip means dealing with car sickness.
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Brittney Melton, NPR, 28 Nov. 2025
Brittney Melton, NPR, 28 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for car sickness
Noun
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Bill insisted on occupying the front passenger seat of the van due to severe motion sickness.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Apr. 2026
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This year, one group is studying how astronauts' bodies move during transitions into and out of microgravity moments that can cause motion sickness and affect performance.—
Nick Lunemann,
CBS News,
20 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Use this after a night of one too many cocktails, or simply add to your in-flight water to prevent dehydration or mountain sickness.—
Krista Simmons,
Sunset Magazine,
4 July 2024
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These researchers would like to pave the way to therapies for chronic mountain sickness, but first need to better define what living and working at this altitude does to human bodies.—
STAT staff,
STAT,
24 Dec. 2019
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The outlet reported that, in the other scenario, guides and hotel staff, according to the CIB probe, have been coached to scare trekkers at high altitude, where altitude sickness can occur.—
Alex Nitzberg,
FOXNews.com,
2 Apr. 2026
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The idea took on fresh urgency when the six cofounders learned that their horseman’s wife had suffered life-threatening altitude sickness while harvesting cordyceps—despite living above 12,500 feet her entire life.—
Erin Levi,
Time,
12 Mar. 2026
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In the 1960s, Thalidomide, a drug marketed for morning sickness, left children around the world with irreversible birth defects; the United States avoided such a fate thanks to the FDA’s oversight.—
Nicholas Florko,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2026
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Rose recommended ginger and cinnamon, for morning sickness, and lemon balm, for postpartum depression.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Car sickness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/car%20sickness. Accessed 30 Apr. 2026.
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