chronicity

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Recent Examples of chronicity My father’s diseases aren’t just marked by chronicity but also unpredictability. Sabrina Qiao, refinery29.com, 23 Nov. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chronicity
Noun
  • And firefighters themselves can help address the prevalence of cancer by participating in research and prevention efforts.
    Victor Stagnaro, New York Daily News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Analyzing wastewater for infectious diseases, whether at the state and local level or through the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Wastewater Surveillance System, can help paint a clearer picture of the prevalence of flu, measles, or Covid-19 in a community.
    Deborah L. Birx, STAT, 5 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • These storms can cause intermittent satellite navigation issues and high-frequency radio disruptions, as well as voltage corrections in power systems, particularly at high latitudes.
    Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Many of them fled to the cities from their rural, coastal home villages because the increasing frequency of disasters like floods, riverbank erosion and cyclones, also due to climate change, made their already fragile livelihoods untenable.
    Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Right now, the cultural spotlight on better digestion and regularity has never been stronger.
    Audrey Bruno, SELF, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Matthews is stripping pucks with authority and regularity.
    Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Real progress in the region, real justice and stability, will require healing, constancy, imagination, and endurance—day after day, year after year, long past any one Administration.
    David Remnick, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
  • There’s no chance viewers will overlook the physical toll demanded of these young men in order to be called Marines, and the intensity of that commitment is marked by its constancy as well as its consequences.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Wise led a study published Wednesday in the American Journal of Epidemiology on hair relaxer use in relation to the incidence and growth of uterine fibroids.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 5 Jan. 2026
  • As such, management strategies for the home garden focus on understanding the disease cycle and adopting cultural methods to prevent disease incidence.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 31 Dec. 2025

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“Chronicity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chronicity. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.

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