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Recent Examples of murrainOtherwise nature is outraged, floods will again sweep the land and murrains strike our cattle.—Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2016
These payments, which are tax-free, are intended for veterans whose disabilities are connected to illnesses, injuries, or events that developed or were aggravated during active duty.
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Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Oct. 2025
The process of a patient’s terminal or catastrophic illness is about building relationships with the medical team and managing expectations.
But the old flivver was ticking along, reminding Drew of happy hours—leaning on opposing fenders under its hood with Lloyd, contemplating the Dart’s latest ailment.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Oct. 2025
Sadly, his time with the company has been marred by injury and other physical ailments.
Her infirmity, Lurie says, began in July, 1953, but tremors of premonition course through her work from first to last, as though sickness were naturally expected to arrive, like a punctual guest.
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Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
And virtually all women east of the Appalachians experienced the violence, sickness, and scarcity of a civil war in which front lines and home fronts were never far apart.
Her infirmity, Lurie says, began in July, 1953, but tremors of premonition course through her work from first to last, as though sickness were naturally expected to arrive, like a punctual guest.
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Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
Humor savors an infirmity — a foible, a failing, a venality, a flaw.
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