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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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The absence of diarrhea and dehydration ruled out cholera and other intestinal infections, the third most common cause of death.—
Tom Frieden,
Big Think,
30 Sep. 2025
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Common symptoms include significant weight loss, feelings of fatigue and heightened vulnerability to infections, as well as frequent urination and excessive thirst.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Listeria monocytogenes is a bacteria that can cause listeriosis, a foodborne illness, according to the Food and Drug Administration.—
Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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Timely treatment of acute illnesses and consistent management of chronic conditions or special needs are also vital to prevent deterioration and long-term consequences into adulthood.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Curing these maladies is a delicate task, with a set of tools and potions to match.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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This contagious malady has ravaged Norfolk County over the past few years.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Defensive lineman Yetur Gross-Matos, who is a reliable depth piece for them, went down with a hamstring injury, while linebacker Dee Winters suffered a shoulder ailment.—
Robert Marvi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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For centuries, such conditions have not even been considered to be health issues in the same way that physical ailments are, and have been dismissed as hysteria or even weakness.—
Alice Park,
Time,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Gein’s sickness is singular and curable, but ours, as a society, is out of control and hopeless?—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
4 Oct. 2025
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The idea of green sickness comes out of Renaissance medicine, which in turn took a page from Hippocrates’s rediscovered book On the Disease of Virgins.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
27 Sep. 2025
Noun
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There’s a lower risk of contagion with inactive chronic hepatitis B, while active chronic hepatitis B is contagious indefinitely.—
Angelica Stabile,
FOXNews.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Research on social contagion consistently shows that when enough individuals adopt new behaviors, change accelerates exponentially.—
Margie Warrell,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Whitfield, who is also executive director of the Phillips County Chamber of Commerce, works with a county joint committee made up of city and county-level interests that aims to alleviate blight in the area.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 Oct. 2025
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Flower blight or petal blight is also caused by a fungal pathogen.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Humor savors an infirmity — a foible, a failing, a venality, a flaw.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
23 Sep. 2025
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The young men naturally start out strongly, but exhaustion, physical infirmities and psychological stress eventually take their toll on them one by one.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Murrain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/murrain. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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