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Recent Examples of incontinence
Bedrooms will have a direct line of sight to the toilet, which can help prevent incontinence.
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Addie Costello, jsonline.com, 25 Dec. 2025
The pelvic floor can weaken during pregnancy and childbirth, too, which can cause incontinence.
—Elizabeth Yuko, Flow Space, 17 Dec. 2025
Five weeks later, the man started experiencing tremors, confusion, urinary incontinence and weakness in his legs.
—Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 11 Dec. 2025
While incontinence is not thought to be a super common side effect of egg freezing, research shows that incontinence is widely underreported and underdiagnosed.
—Anonymous, SELF, 4 Dec. 2025
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Addie Costello, jsonline.com, 25 Dec. 2025
The pelvic floor can weaken during pregnancy and childbirth, too, which can cause incontinence.
—Elizabeth Yuko, Flow Space, 17 Dec. 2025
Five weeks later, the man started experiencing tremors, confusion, urinary incontinence and weakness in his legs.
—Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 11 Dec. 2025
While incontinence is not thought to be a super common side effect of egg freezing, research shows that incontinence is widely underreported and underdiagnosed.
—Anonymous, SELF, 4 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incontinence
Noun
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This included no meaningful excess of memory loss or dementia, depression, sleep disturbance, erectile dysfunction, weight gain, nausea, fatigue or headache.—
Sara Moniuszko,
USA Today,
6 Feb. 2026
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Bloomberg Intelligence has estimated that if Uber continues to fare poorly in early trials, the company may ultimately have to pay in excess of $500 million to settle more than 3,000 pending cases.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
6 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 Jan. 2026
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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.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
3 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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
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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
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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.—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
6 Nov. 2025
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What other spot in the Golden State so perfectly captures the state’s wildness and its simultaneous love of the ocean and the mountains?—
James Rainey,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2026
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First-time visitors might expect wildness, isolation, and more nature than culture.—
Sarah Moss,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Jan. 2026
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Recently, Shapiro has gone into attack mode against some of his fellow MAGA media stars, including Tucker Carlson, for their indulgence, if not outright support, of antisemites like Nick Fuentes.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2026
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Be prudent about your indulgences, but don’t feel the need to repress them for the sake of a wider audience who was never going to get it.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Feb. 2026
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The service The staff does an excellent job of balancing the refinement of a luxurious resort with a sense of casualness.—
Asonta Benetti,
Condé Nast Traveler,
31 Jan. 2026
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Hunter saw the logic in Ake’s casualness, which as the head of a learning institution projects a warmth and informality that brings her down to earth for her unseasoned cadets.—
Scott Huver,
PEOPLE,
26 Jan. 2026
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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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The suggestion, in other words, is that the chatbot should err on the side of permissiveness in response to user prompts for erotic material.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
2 Jan. 2026
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“Incontinence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incontinence. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.
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