incontinence

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Recent Examples of incontinence Urinary incontinence is especially prevalent. Jennifer Byrne, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2026 At Texas Diaper Bank, Bachran is seeing a supply gap in multigenerational households for the basic essentials the organization steps in to provide, which include baby diapers, wipes, incontinence supplies, and menstrual products. Sierra Leone Starks, Parents, 3 Mar. 2026 Bladder Problems As many as 40% of women may experience incontinence during perimenopause. Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Flow Space, 13 Feb. 2026 This fern can help calm incontinence naturally and soothe inflamed bladders. Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for incontinence
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incontinence
Noun
  • Temperatures in excess of 82 degrees Fahrenheit are considered ideal conditions for tropical storm or hurricane development.
    Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • These morality tales, focusing on figures like Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky, make an implicit claim that individual avarice somehow explains the excesses of an entire era.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • This kind of depravity, licentiousness and polemical theatrics has no place on such a traditional and once wholesome presentation of the coming of a new year in our great nation and especially on the eve of the 250th anniversary of the greatest experiment in democracy and freedom in history.
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2026
  • This kind of depravity, licentiousness and polemical theatrics has no place on such a traditional and once-wholesome presentation of the coming of a new year, especially on the eve of the 250th anniversary of the greatest experiment in democracy and freedom in history.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The power to issue absolute pardons, explicitly stipulated in the founding document, has been exploited with bipartisan intemperance.
    Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
  • But in 1832, people believed cholera was linked to intemperance and vice, which were thought to weaken the body.
    William E. Watson, The Conversation, 1 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Grace’s playfully feral wantonness is funny and bewitching, but her schtick loses its luster for Jackson, who takes a job that keeps him away from home, leaving her with the baby.
    Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Yankees starter Carlos Rodón made his season debut and held Milwaukee hitless for the first 3 2/3 innings, but the Brewers erased a two-run deficit and took the lead in the fourth inning by capitalizing on the left-hander’s wildness.
    ABC News, ABC News, 10 May 2026
  • Yankees starter Carlos Rodón made his season debut and held Milwaukee hitless for the first 3 2/3 innings, but the Brewers erased a two-run deficit and took the lead in the fourth inning by capitalizing on the left-hander's wildness.
    CBS New York Team, CBS News, 10 May 2026
Noun
  • Like air travel, fast fashion, and so many indulgences of our era, drinking invites us to consider a gruelling litany of downsides and then decide whether the trade-offs are worth it.
    Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • For many, a no-phone vacation is less an indulgence than a corrective.
    Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 16 May 2026
Noun
  • Seydoux also approaches her beauty with a quintessentially French casualness.
    Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 18 May 2026
  • The house did not have a European or East Coast seriousness, but rather a Californian dimension rooted in casualness, improvisation, and lack of pretension.
    Rem Koolhaas, Artforum, 26 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Biden surpassed Ronald Reagan in permissiveness for refugees’ suffering.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026
  • Some of this unprecedented editorial permissiveness can be attributed to the disappearance of a stable moral consensus to bind the ruling class to its subjects, who have come to develop the conviction that the Establishment has nothing good to say for itself.
    Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026

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“Incontinence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incontinence. Accessed 21 May. 2026.

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