faintness

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Recent Examples of faintness The faintness lasted only a minute. Robert Easton, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for faintness
Noun
  • It could be argued that this trio of managers followed each other at United because their strengths answered the previous manager’s weaknesses.
    Carl Anka, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The weakness was most pronounced on the goods-producing side of the economy.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Making critical decisions from exhaustion, not vision.
    Yermys Pena, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • My Lebanese friends and business associates increasingly speak of exhaustion with conflict, hunger for economic progress, and today’s unprecedented opportunities.
    semafor.com, semafor.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • It’s always conducted in the blind, with protocols employed to avoid any undue influence, from pay-to-play to palate fatigue.
    Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Lisa Healy, 29, from Toronto, Canada, battled decades of fatigue, weakness and low energy, which affected her mood and was often described as sadness.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The shadow of death and debility haunted American women throughout the nineteenth century.
    Jenny Noyce, JSTOR Daily, 28 June 2024
  • President Biden’s troubles — lingering inflation, wars and rumors of wars, his debility — could have benefited any Republican.
    David Harsanyi, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024

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“Faintness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/faintness. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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