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Recent Examples of infestUnfortunately, the region was infested with pirates and evil spirits.—H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 5 July 2025 People responded generously after reading eight Wish List stories, which included a Covington mother of three in need of reliable transportation and Cincinnati man forced to toss all his belongings after his apartment became infested with bedbugs.—Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025 Aphids present in the garden can infest plants but are easily managed with horticultural sprays or a heavy
stream of water.—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 1 July 2025 At a time when division is high and negativity seems to be infesting every corner of people’s day-to-day lives, Lake Street Dive have instead chosen to go down a path of positivity.—Dave Gil De Rubio, Oc Register, 25 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for infest
On July 22, the hospital confirmed the patient died from the infection
A child in South Carolina has died after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba, state health officials confirmed.
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Vanessa Etienne,
People.com,
23 July 2025
In a study published July 22 in Nature Communications, researchers report that living through the pandemic aged our brains—whether or not you were infected with COVID-19.
Ever since Google emerged as the home page of the Web in the early 2000s, media outlets operated under the assumption that Google would reliably crawl their sites and send audience their way.
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IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
31 July 2025
Silver floral detailing crawled along the right hip of the gown and the left side of Lohan’s midsection.
With no hemming required, each one of these matching sets won’t drag on the floor or overwhelm your small frame.
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Stephanie Osmanski,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 July 2025
In greater numbers than ever, children hollowed up by hunger are overwhelming the Patient’s Friends Hospital, the main emergency center for malnourished kids in northern Gaza.
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