maladies

plural of malady

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Recent Examples of maladies And imagining a world without our complexities and maladies was spirit expanding. Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025 Curing these maladies is a delicate task, with a set of tools and potions to match. Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025 Thomas said he’s spoken with a few other players who have dealt with similar maladies, including Carlos Correa and Harrison Bader. Zack Meisel, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025 Minze Health, a developer of digital diagnostic and therapeutic devices for urology maladies, announced Thomas Moore as president and chief executive officer, based in the Twin Cities. Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025 The Minnesota Vikings are in the market for a wide receiver thanks to Jordan Addison's suspension and a sudden rash of injuries to their receiving corps, as both Justin Jefferson and Jalen Nailor are nursing individual maladies. Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025 The pics sparked an online frenzy, with keyboard physicians diagnosing all sorts of maladies. Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 24 Aug. 2025 That shift is part of what makes wearable fitness monitors so appealing—– there’s a feeling that these are lifestyle maladies, which could be within our control. Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025 The project’s team tested the AI diagnostics against a basket of common maladies using a panel of three doctors, including one who is also an astronaut. PC Magazine, 10 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for maladies
Noun
  • Instead, the soldiers carried bacteria that cause enteric fever and relapsing fever, two diseases that may have hastened the army’s downfall.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Both diseases would have been deadly in the early 1800s in the absence of sanitary conditions and antibiotics.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Salmonella rarely results in more serious ailments, which can include arterial infections, endocarditis, arthritis, muscle pain, eye irritation, and urinary tract symptoms.
    Eva Wen, jsonline.com, 25 Oct. 2025
  • This is based on a mix of historical accounts, the discovery of body lice on the remains of soldiers (which carried the pathogens that transmitted the ailments), and DNA analyses conducted nearly a decade ago.
    Ari Daniel, NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • First, Yung suggested speaking with a doctor to rule out any underlying illnesses.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Getting into conflict with strays can leave them with severe injuries or new illnesses, which can be contracted from scratches or bites.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For all their ills, the Chargers are in first place.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The retraction was expected by many nutrition experts, who have long questioned claims that this kind of vinegar could remedy ills including obesity, diabetes, and even cancer.
    Jon Hamilton, NPR, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Pathogens in human poop can remain active for a long time – over a year in outdoor environments – meaning that waste left behind today can cause severe gastrointestinal disease and other sicknesses for future visitors.
    B. Derrick Taff, The Conversation, 29 Aug. 2025
  • All their triumphs, all their sleepless nights, their loves and hates, their sicknesses, their schemes, their rises to power and their falls from it -- all gone.
    Paul Prather, Arkansas Online, 27 Feb. 2016

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