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Recent Examples of incontinence
The Health Risks Patients Face Studies have reported patients suffering short- and long-term side effects from unregulated procedures, including heart problems, neurological changes, accidental infection with hepatitis and urinary incontinence.
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Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
27 May 2026
Symptoms differ from strokes caused by a blockage in the brain, as a spinal stroke causes pain in the neck or back that radiates through the limbs, muscle weakness or numbness, incontinence and loss of sensation, such as feeling touch or temperature changes.
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Cara Lynn Shultz,
PEOPLE,
17 Apr. 2026
Unlike adult incontinence products, baby diapers are not regulated as medical devices under the Federal Drug Administration.
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Kate Sequeira,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
The series’ opening scene plops audiences in the middle of the Dardanos’ dysfunction, as Linda, presiding over her own mother’s hospital room, screeches that her children should bear witness to their terminally ill nonna’s final days—even to her urinary incontinence.
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Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
9 Apr. 2026
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Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
27 May 2026
Symptoms differ from strokes caused by a blockage in the brain, as a spinal stroke causes pain in the neck or back that radiates through the limbs, muscle weakness or numbness, incontinence and loss of sensation, such as feeling touch or temperature changes.
—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
PEOPLE,
17 Apr. 2026
Unlike adult incontinence products, baby diapers are not regulated as medical devices under the Federal Drug Administration.
—
Kate Sequeira,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
The series’ opening scene plops audiences in the middle of the Dardanos’ dysfunction, as Linda, presiding over her own mother’s hospital room, screeches that her children should bear witness to their terminally ill nonna’s final days—even to her urinary incontinence.
—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
9 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incontinence
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Attems Sauvignon Blanc, Venezia Giulia IGT, $20 Attems offers a slightly riper, more generous introduction to Friulian sauvignon blanc, but never veers into tropical excess.
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Working with 5 to 6 pieces at a time, remove fish from batter, allowing excess to drip back into bowl, and add to hot oil, briefly dragging fish along surface of oil to prevent sticking.
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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.
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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.
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Rather, the term has come to stand for a range of attributes—intemperance, ordinariness, outsiderness, likability, spontaneity—that aren’t especially related philosophically, either to authenticity or to one another.
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The power to issue absolute pardons, explicitly stipulated in the founding document, has been exploited with bipartisan intemperance.
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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.
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This excessiveness can hinder critical knowledge building because of the sheer amount of information that can be accessed simultaneously at any time.
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Salonen guided the Colburn Orchestra with flexible authority, imposing order or inciting wildness as the moment required.
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The heat, the sunlight, the wildness of the landscape immediately locked me into the Greek atmosphere of the book.
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Now the carriages are no longer a necessity but an indulgence aimed at tourists.
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Chocolate is one of Americans' favorite indulgences, with consumers spending billions of dollars on it every year.
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She would have been floored by the casualness that has seeped into society today, from wearing pajamas on flights to sweatpants to dinner.
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Seydoux also approaches her beauty with a quintessentially French casualness.
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“Incontinence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incontinence. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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