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Recent Examples of chronicity
My father’s diseases aren’t just marked by chronicity but also unpredictability.
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Sabrina Qiao, refinery29.com, 23 Nov. 2021
Sabrina Qiao, refinery29.com, 23 Nov. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chronicity
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Some regions of the United States are experiencing higher rates of positive COVID-19 tests than others, though reporting has slowed down enough nationwide that the CDC has begun allowing more time to pass between certain types of updates, such as those on variant prevalence.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2025
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For more details about the use of AI overall and the daunting prevalence of privacy issues, see my discussion at the link here.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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However, it's being seen with increasing frequency in northeastern states along the Atlantic coast, said Madoff, medical director for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health's Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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Heat waves are increasing in temperature, frequency and duration, pushing native species like rattlesnakes to their biological limit.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Improving ease and regularity often comes down to dietary and lifestyle changes working together.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
6 Sep. 2025
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Unsurpringly, 50 pieces of rodent regularity dotted the floor of the dry storage shed and three rodent droppings under the Frosty machine.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
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That the shop has indulged families for decades speaks to its constancy.—
Mike Klingaman,
Baltimore Sun,
17 June 2025
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Closer to home, physicists study vibrations of atoms, such as those used in atomic clocks, to look for deviations from pure constancy.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
23 May 2025
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For example, people living in Ramsar, Iran, or certain regions of Kerala, India, receive more than 10 mGy per year from natural sources alone and yet show no consistent pattern of elevated disease incidence.—
Anna Broughel,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Still, one new study published in NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science does predict that over the next decade the number of Atlantic hurricanes and tropical storms could double compared to the 1970s, while storm incidence in the eastern Pacific could increase by a third.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Chronicity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chronicity. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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