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Recent Examples of diseased
Good maintenance includes pruning dead and diseased wood, providing proper irrigation, amending soils, treating disease and insect infestations, and protecting trees from wildlife.
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Clarence Schmidt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
Dig and destroy diseased plants, roots and all.
—Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Oct. 2025
Throw away diseased plant material; do not add it to your compost pile.
—Special To The Denver Post, Denver Post, 5 Oct. 2025
The only exceptions are removing dead, diseased or hazardous branches.
—Chris McKeown, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Sep. 2025
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Clarence Schmidt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
Dig and destroy diseased plants, roots and all.
—Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Oct. 2025
Throw away diseased plant material; do not add it to your compost pile.
—Special To The Denver Post, Denver Post, 5 Oct. 2025
The only exceptions are removing dead, diseased or hazardous branches.
—Chris McKeown, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for diseased
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Meanwhile, Banks’ strained attempts to put Sarah on Zoë’s level leave Wilson stranded in a character unfit for the driver’s seat.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
29 Oct. 2025
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However, if temperatures fluctuate unpredictably, going below or above the average, all the low-var animals will be unfit and unable to pass on their genes.—
Shraddha Lall,
The Conversation,
16 Oct. 2025
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This means astronauts will have to diagnose, treat, and manage crises without ground support, even if a crew member becomes incapacitated.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Oct. 2025
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Cheryl Harris Gates, 43, of Charlotte, is also charged with contaminating food or drink to render one mentally incapacitated or physically helpless; stalking; and damage to property.—
Joe Marusak,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Oct. 2025
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And Lloyd brings a stiff upper lip that melts away to secret tenderness and fear to Celeste, who is not only navigating the realities of being the only Black woman in the group, but also returning home to take care of her ailing mother.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Oct. 2025
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But despite the weakened state, Melissa hammered Cuba, which has an ailing power grid and is still recovering from years of back-to-back storm hits.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
29 Oct. 2025
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The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) AirNow map, which provides a real-time snapshot of air quality, showed that air pollution levels around Sweet Home, northeast of Eugene, were in the unhealthy range on Friday morning.—
Matthew Robinson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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Although chocolate can sometimes be associated with unhealthy habits, like eating too much sugar, dark chocolate has many redeeming qualities.—
Christina Manian,
Health,
30 Oct. 2025
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The longer the shutdown lasts, the greater the risk of cargo backups at these Texas ports due to unpaid employees calling in sick.—
The NPR Network,
NPR,
30 Oct. 2025
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Officials advise against consuming meat from deer that appear sick or test positive for the disease.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
30 Oct. 2025
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Hamida next interacts with Taro, an unwell Hindu woman forced into prostitution by her husband, who is himself preoccupied with his mistress.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Oct. 2025
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The first sign of the disease is usually a fever, followed by a sore throat and a general feeling of being unwell.—
Katia Hetter,
CNN Money,
29 Oct. 2025
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Two mentally ill guys just whaling on each other.—
Pat Saperstein,
Variety,
2 Nov. 2025
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Smith noted that a current assumption in aging science is that if a person lives to be 80 years old, 60 of those years may be healthy, and the last 25% will be in relatively ill-health.—
Alexei Oreskovic,
Fortune,
30 Oct. 2025
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By 1948, decades of patchwork repairs, design flaws and war damage left the mansion structurally unsound, according to the White House Historical Association.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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The Eagles were unsound and undisciplined.—
Zach Berman,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Diseased.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diseased. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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