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Recent Examples of invalidism
Since the 1970s, feminist scholars have been actively documenting the ways menstruation has been used to ground false arguments about women’s weakness, invalidism, and inferiority in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Literary Hub,
11 Mar. 2026
As Eliot went through a crisis involving his turn to Christianity, Vivien’s invalidism, and his mother’s death, his letters got more and more intense and confessional.
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Christopher Tayler,
Harper’s Magazine ,
17 Aug. 2022
Each of his figures exists in a limbo of invalidism, enervation, atrophied mythology, Arcadian dreams of bathing beauties, and all our endless Modernist nudes by riverbeds, in parks, beds, stripped naked facing us, or masturbating.
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Jerry Saltz,
Vulture,
12 Nov. 2021
Dorothy discovered the upside of invalidism in late middle age—
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Aimee Levitt,
Chicago Reader,
15 Aug. 2017
Literary Hub,
11 Mar. 2026
As Eliot went through a crisis involving his turn to Christianity, Vivien’s invalidism, and his mother’s death, his letters got more and more intense and confessional.
—
Christopher Tayler,
Harper’s Magazine ,
17 Aug. 2022
Each of his figures exists in a limbo of invalidism, enervation, atrophied mythology, Arcadian dreams of bathing beauties, and all our endless Modernist nudes by riverbeds, in parks, beds, stripped naked facing us, or masturbating.
—
Jerry Saltz,
Vulture,
12 Nov. 2021
Dorothy discovered the upside of invalidism in late middle age—
—
Aimee Levitt,
Chicago Reader,
15 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for invalidism
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And, when pets suffered from cancer or heart failure or debility, conversations about what to do next were emotional but often straightforward.
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His trajectory is one of softening, from the swaggering knight of the opening to the irrepressible lover of the second act to his final physical debility.
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Speaking with Seacoast Online, part of the USA TODAY Network, three years after his diagnosis, Hall said the symptoms of the disease can come and go.
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While bedbugs are not known to spread or transmit disease, the Environmental Protection Agency considers the parasitic insects a pest that can cause other public health issues such as allergic reactions, secondary infections and mental health impacts on those living in infested homes.
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Similarly, ‘Barton Springs,’ a meditation on beautiful youth doomed to mortal decrepitude, feels somehow too personal to make the visceral leap into a reader’s recognition.
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The kills here are as elaborate as in the first outing and the depictions of moral decrepitude are so on target at times you all but want to stand up and cheer when the evildoers get served their comeuppance.
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As Kasubhai observed, despite its legal feebleness, Kennedy’s declaration and its explicit threat has had a concrete impact on the provision of gender-affirming services to American youths.
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Signs of disease include warts on legs, crusty or swollen eyes, feebleness, a ruffled appearance, difficulty breathing, nasal discharge, and diarrhea.
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And by that, researchers mean methods to drastically reduce the amount of illness and infirmity that currently afflict people in old age.
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Colette, Mark Twain, and William Wordsworth all wrote habitually from bed, for reasons having to do with infirmity, comfort, and warding off distraction; Frida Kahlo painted self-portraits from bed, including the dreams that transcended her physical confinement.
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Services will range from individual wellness and sick-patient examinations to routine herd healthcare, breeding soundness exams, pregnancy examinations, on-farm consultations, lameness evaluations and certificates of veterinary inspection, A-State said.
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Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness.
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Haberman and Swan make clear the dimensions of his malady.
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Over the decades the O’odham placed some barbed wire along the border to keep livestock from straying into the neighboring country, limiting the spread of maladies such as foot-and-mouth disease and hindering cattle thieves.
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Imaging this week showed Brown has a stress reaction in his neck, which was in the same spot as his 2024 ailment that ultimately had been diagnosed as an osteoma (benign bone tumor).
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Also in Indy, Caitlin Clark left last night’s game with a back ailment.
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“Invalidism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/invalidism. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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