colics

plural of colic

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Noun
  • Tylenol is used to treat a several conditions, such as mild to moderate pain, fever, headaches, muscle aches, toothaches, backaches and colds.
    Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Aldo Olivieri, il Gatto Magico (the Magic Cat), who had survived a fractured skull that required drilling to save his life and left him with chronic headaches, became the first-choice goalkeeper.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
  • But the holiday headaches might get much worse as the government shutdown causes flight reductions at major airports.
    Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The movie takes pains to illustrate how the possible end of the world will begin like any other day.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Colleagues who failed to take similar pains earned his everlasting disdain.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Consumption of food contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes can cause listeriosis, a serious infection that can cause fever, muscle aches, headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance and convulsions.
    Asuka Koda, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, there are dozens of viruses and bacteria that can cause flu-like symptoms — such as fever, chills, cough, body aches and headaches — including enterovirus, parainfluenza and more.
    Liz Szabo, NBC news, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Some detail Lucy’s desperate search for a new refrigerator for her mother-in-law during the height of the war, while others show the pangs of jealousy that come with a new relationship.
    Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
  • These pangs are only compounded by the cliffhanger that concluded Season 2, in which President William Rayburn (Michael McKean) suffered a fatal heart attack and elevated his vice president, Grace Penn (Allison Janney), to the top of the call sheet.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In fact, Trump’s gripes with Beijing were mostly limited to the amount of goods China purchased from the United States, and so much of his attention was spent on direct negotiations with Xi that tried to address the trade deficit.
    Mira Rapp-Hooper, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2025
  • In fact, Punk has publicly shared his gripes over certain AEW stars not wanting to work with him in the past.
    Fernando Quiles Jr, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Colics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colics. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.

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