faintness

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Recent Examples of faintness The challenge, of course, is their faintness. Adam Frank, Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025 The faintness lasted only a minute. Robert Easton, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for faintness
Noun
  • Los Angeles' bullpen is the team's biggest weakness, and Snell is helping to cover it up by giving the Dodgers longer starts.
    Nelson Espinal, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, CMT causes a range of sensory and motor symptoms, including numbness, tingling, pain, muscle weakness and atrophy — deterioration in cells, tissues, and organs.
    Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As my exhaustion broke the spell of curiosity, the narrative appealed to me.
    Jim Beaugez, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Is that your way of expressing the anger and exhaustion that so many people feel in the country right now?
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Researchers highlighted the current challenges for OCTOID, including slow thermal response and potential fatigue of CLCEs, and the weight of nichrome wires limiting flexibility.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Hoka Women’s Transport Shoes This cushy shoe is designed with a rocker bottom that pushes you into your next step, putting off foot fatigue for longer.
    Jasmine Gomez, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In Will There Ever Be Another You, the main character struggles with an illness similar to long COVID, descending into a state of debility and psychosis as readers experience the chaos of her unraveling life.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The shadow of death and debility haunted American women throughout the nineteenth century.
    Jenny Noyce, JSTOR Daily, 28 June 2024

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“Faintness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/faintness. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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