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as in disease
an abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning
before the days of modern medicine, when death remained a mystery, people said that someone died of a fever and left it at that
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as in frenzy
a state of wildly excited activity or emotion
in the fever of a political campaign a lot of things get said that never should have been said
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Recent Examples of fever
Advertisement Yet the domestic thriller is no longer just a fever dream of gender anxiety.
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Judy Berman, Time, 30 Jan. 2026
Carried by fruit bats and animals such as pigs, the virus can cause fever and brain inflammation.
—Reuters, NBC news, 30 Jan. 2026
The recent hospitalization comes nearly a year after he was hospitalized for coughing up blood and coming down with a fever in February 2025, TMZ previously reported.
—Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 2026
Chicago health officials said symptoms are similar to common illnesses, including fever, chills, fatigue, and nausea.
—Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
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Judy Berman, Time, 30 Jan. 2026
Carried by fruit bats and animals such as pigs, the virus can cause fever and brain inflammation.
—Reuters, NBC news, 30 Jan. 2026
The recent hospitalization comes nearly a year after he was hospitalized for coughing up blood and coming down with a fever in February 2025, TMZ previously reported.
—Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 30 Jan. 2026
Chicago health officials said symptoms are similar to common illnesses, including fever, chills, fatigue, and nausea.
—Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fever
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Raw milk has not been pasteurized — a process that heats milk to remove disease-causing germs.—
Michael Sinkewicz,
FOXNews.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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The researchers found that targeting this network with brain-stimulating treatments could better alleviate the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.—
Allison Parshall,
Scientific American,
4 Feb. 2026
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This fact is why the tax- and fee-hike frenzy of the past year won’t ebb any time soon.—
U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 Jan. 2026
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In an age when polarized politics have whipped extremists into a frenzy and disagreeing with someone’s views justifies physical assault among fringe elements, the assault on Omar is a new abysmal milestone of societal degradation.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
29 Jan. 2026
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Among those on the field at Stanford University was quarterback Drake Maye, who was limited all of last week with a shoulder injury and missed Friday's session with an illness.—
Matt Schooley,
CBS News,
5 Feb. 2026
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But availability remains a persistent question for Porzingis, who has been limited to 17 games this season, due in part to the chronic autonomic nervous system illness POTS, or postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
5 Feb. 2026
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At that time, officials from the San Jose Police Department described the injury to the sergeant and how officers subsequently shot, then ran over Husien to end his rampage.—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
28 Jan. 2026
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Kanye West, now known as Ye, has taken out an ad in The Wall Street Journal to plead for forgiveness after his antisemitic rampage in 2025.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
26 Jan. 2026
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Galen concocted medicines that seem strange to modern ears, such as treating ailments like inflammation with feces sprinkled with thyme to mask the odor.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Jan. 2026
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Spillane also left Sunday’s game with his ankle ailment.—
Doug Kyed,
Boston Herald,
28 Jan. 2026
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During the 1980s, both tabloids pandered to the racial resentments and fears of white New Yorkers when covering all of the city’s ills.—
Heather Ann Thompson,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2026
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Winning tends to cure a lot of ills, and the Hornets hit the road this week with two recent home victories to their credit.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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That sickness felt like a plague Wednesday as Auburn shot 39 of them on 26 Texas fouls.—
Cedric Golden,
Austin American Statesman,
30 Jan. 2026
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Like absolutely everything in this movie, that sickness is repeated across the other parts of the story, as Thorn is wounded by a fall and Claire’s non-character of a mom falls ill from movie cancer.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Fever.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fever. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.
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