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Recent Examples of murrain
Otherwise nature is outraged, floods will again sweep the land and murrains strike our cattle.
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Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2016
Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for murrain
Noun
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During an infection, foreign particles, known as antigens, circulate in our bodies.—
Jerome Groopman,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Some receiving payments also have claimed erectile dysfunction, toenail fungus, urinary tract infections and acid reflux in their medical evaluations.—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
4 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The district is encouraging families to monitor their children for any signs of illness.—
Mike Darnay,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2026
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Miami was missing guard Norman Powell for the third straight game due to an illness and Boston was missing center Nikola Vucevic because of a finger injury.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
2 Apr. 2026
Noun
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One of the oddest maladies of our current TV era has been a desensitization to Nicole Kidman.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Apr. 2026
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DeGrom a two-time Cy Young Award winner, also has had surgery on his ulnar nerve in his elbow and missed time due to forearm tightness, among other maladies.—
Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Apr. 2026
Noun
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In one case, a California prison guard with spinal problems also claimed other ailments, including toenail fungus and eczema, as work-disabling conditions.—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
4 Apr. 2026
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There, an old Tibetan man (Tsewang Migyur Khangsar) requests a Tibetan doctor to tend to his ever more troubling ailments.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
Noun
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His raging sickness is realistically captured under James Bridges’ character-sensitive direction.—
Duane Byrge,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Apr. 2026
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Cornwell makes the sickness more literal still.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Dysphoria is not a social contagion.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
1 Apr. 2026
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For fear of contagion, the hospital staff housed him in a storage shed.—
Peter Wayne Moe,
Longreads,
26 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Looking for varieties that resist root knot nematode or verticillium wilt or early blight or other common tomato problems?—
Nan Sterman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Apr. 2026
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Despite being on the city’s radar since 2022, San Jose officials failed to banish the existing building’s blight.—
George Avalos,
Mercury News,
3 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Because of his infirmities, he is housed in a medical unit of the jail, away from the general population.—
Maer Roshan,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Mar. 2026
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Those are the words Dr. James Parkinson used in an essay more than 200 years ago to group together symptoms and describe a mysterious infirmity afflicting six individuals in London.—
Andrea Kane,
CNN Money,
9 Dec. 2025
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“Murrain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/murrain. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.
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