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as in disease
an abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning
suffered from a mysterious illness that left her weak and tired all the time
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as in sickness
the condition of not being in good health
prone to illness as a child, he was sent to a western ranch with the expectation that it would toughen him up
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Recent Examples of illness
Other vaccine-preventable illnesses, from measles to polio, could make significant comebacks with changes to American vaccine policy, KFF Health News and NPR reported.
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Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 21 May 2025
If anyone shows signs of heat illness, promptly move them to a cool, shaded area.
—Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 21 May 2025
Public health officials advised anyone who dined at Aladdin Café within the affected time frame and developed symptoms to seek medical attention and to report their illness to county authorities.
—Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
When Someone Has Been Sick When someone in your household has an enteric infection, use a laundry sanitizer in conjunction with a heavy-duty laundry detergent to prevent the illness from spreading to others.
—Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 May 2025
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Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 21 May 2025
If anyone shows signs of heat illness, promptly move them to a cool, shaded area.
—Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 21 May 2025
Public health officials advised anyone who dined at Aladdin Café within the affected time frame and developed symptoms to seek medical attention and to report their illness to county authorities.
—Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
When Someone Has Been Sick When someone in your household has an enteric infection, use a laundry sanitizer in conjunction with a heavy-duty laundry detergent to prevent the illness from spreading to others.
—Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for illness
Noun
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This field includes liquid biopsy, referring to techniques that process bodily fluids such as blood, urine, and saliva for different disease biomarkers.—
Cat Wang,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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The fungal disease does not spread from person to person, according to the CDC.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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Luther is shown struggling with a sickness early in the movie.—
Tommy McArdle,
People.com,
23 May 2025
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Organic materials like wood and oil that don’t fully burn can leave polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons — or PAHs — which can harm the immune system and cause sickness in the short term and cancer in the long term.—
Noah Haggerty,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2025
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The threadbare plot is set in motion when Tesfaye’s screen-self (henceforth referred to as Abel) loses his voice while touring, a real-life incident forced here into heavy-handed metaphor as an existential ailment symptomatic of his deeper issues with himself and women.—
Charles Bramesco,
IndieWire,
15 May 2025
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Djokovic struggled with his fitness and had a reputation for pulling out of matches with various ailments.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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On one level, this flurry of proposals to ills that have been festering in California and domestically for years is more posturing than problem solving.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
5 May 2025
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Protectionists presented tariffs as the essential policy to quicken the development of manufactures as well as a remedy to the social ills that afflicted the emerging industrial working class.—
Made by History,
Time,
28 Apr. 2025
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Now cats are being used as props for deforestation propaganda and next-gen glitch art morphs the world into a Fibonacci fever dream.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
21 May 2025
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This episode, with its live-audience chaos, pushes that formula into thrilling new territory: part therapy session, part stand-up set, part fever dream.—
Clayton Davis,
Variety,
20 May 2025
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“Illness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illness. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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