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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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Only people with active TB disease in the lungs or throat can spread the infection.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
29 Mar. 2026
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Causes include infection and excessive bleeding.—
Laura Ungar,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Art Dlugach, a longtime sports producer for KPIX in San Francisco, died Thursday morning in Texas, surrounded by his family after a brief illness.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026
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But Trump does not oppose giving voters accommodations to vote by mail for illness, disability, military or travel.—
Joe Battenfeld,
Boston Herald,
26 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Medical experts say the deadly malady can strike victims after as little as two years of working with the material.—
Ethan Baron,
Mercury News,
16 Mar. 2026
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Musgrove’s history of performing well and working through maladies bolsters the Padres’ confidence.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Mar. 2026
Noun
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And their best is Ragans, the opening day ace who was limited to just 13 starts while battling a groin injury and then a rotator cuff ailment in 2025.—
Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
27 Mar. 2026
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These bacteria are known to cause a host of ailments, including listeriosis, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, diphtheria, Guillain-Barré syndrome, miscarriage, brucellosis, chronic inflammatory conditions, reactive arthritis and death.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
27 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The symptoms of our darkest cultural sicknesses become visible.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Mar. 2026
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Chee grimaces in pain from his ghost sickness wounds, and Manuelito notices.—
Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Other analysts have also flagged potential contagion risks around underlying exposures to the Iran war.—
Joseph Wilkins,
CNBC,
25 Mar. 2026
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Is the sound an airborne contagion, or something everyone could always hear or sense that’s only now being unbottled?—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Media and governments embraced his Malthusian gloom and shaped generations of Americans to view humanity as blight.—
Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
20 Mar. 2026
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Supporters say the broader bill would also help local governments expand housing supply, reduce blight and promote homeownership opportunities.—
Zachary Bynum,
CBS News,
17 Mar. 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 1 Apr. 2026.
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