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Recent Examples of incontinence
Each small room has its own bathroom, allowing dignity and privacy for older adults who struggle with incontinence.
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Aaron Bolton, NPR, 6 Jan. 2026
Bedrooms will have a direct line of sight to the toilet, which can help prevent incontinence.
—Addie Costello, jsonline.com, 25 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
The good news is that incontinence symptoms that arise following egg retrieval, are generally short-lived and typically improve after your period resumes post-retrieval and the ovaries shrink to their normal size, says Ahmad.
—Anonymous, SELF, 4 Dec. 2025
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Aaron Bolton, NPR, 6 Jan. 2026
Bedrooms will have a direct line of sight to the toilet, which can help prevent incontinence.
—Addie Costello, jsonline.com, 25 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
The good news is that incontinence symptoms that arise following egg retrieval, are generally short-lived and typically improve after your period resumes post-retrieval and the ovaries shrink to their normal size, says Ahmad.
—Anonymous, SELF, 4 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incontinence
Noun
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That could bear out to be true if February's losses in the major averages means enough of the AI excess has been flushed out of the stock market, meaning investors feel readier to embrace the trade.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
27 Feb. 2026
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Meanwhile, a touch of caramel follows for a bit of confectionery warmth that feels indulgent without tipping into excess.—
Conçetta Ciarlo,
Vogue,
27 Feb. 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 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
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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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His character is an avatar for the austere religion that threatens to impinge on the wildness that reigns at the Heights.—
Natasha O'Neill,
Vanity Fair,
13 Feb. 2026
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Uranus in Taurus adds a streak of wildness and excitement to Venus’s cosmic mix on March 4th.—
Lisa Stardust,
Refinery29,
9 Feb. 2026
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In a more simplistic story, Derya and Aziz’s efforts to find a good private school for their daughter would come off as a hopeless bourgeois indulgence.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2026
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However, Catholics often choose an indulgence to abstain from such as sweets or wine in observance.—
Matthew Kayser,
Ascend Agency,
26 Feb. 2026
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From candidates wearing bathrobes to those outsourcing their critical thinking to AI, the virtual hiring process is facing a crisis of casualness.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
22 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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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 2 Mar. 2026.
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