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as in sickness
a disturbed condition of the stomach in which one feels like vomiting
symptoms include fever accompanied by a loss of appetite and nausea
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as in disgust
a dislike so strong as to cause stomach upset or queasiness
such graphic scenes of senseless violence fill me with nausea
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Recent Examples of nausea
During that time span, students complained of experiencing nausea, dizziness and headaches from the gas-like odor, parents and students told ABC affiliate station WPDE in Florence.
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Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2025
Early symptoms of gallbladder problems include right upper abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, fever, and jaundice.
—Angela Ryan Lee, Verywell Health, 23 Sep. 2025
The most common side effects were gastrointestinal, including nausea, constipation, diarrhea and vomiting, at mild to moderate severity.
—Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Amylin has emerged as a possibly gentler option to GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound, which can have high rates of side effects including nausea and vomiting.
—Bloomberg, Oc Register, 22 Sep. 2025
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Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2025
Early symptoms of gallbladder problems include right upper abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, fever, and jaundice.
—Angela Ryan Lee, Verywell Health, 23 Sep. 2025
The most common side effects were gastrointestinal, including nausea, constipation, diarrhea and vomiting, at mild to moderate severity.
—Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Amylin has emerged as a possibly gentler option to GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound, which can have high rates of side effects including nausea and vomiting.
—Bloomberg, Oc Register, 22 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nausea
Noun
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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
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What does another entry into the canon of sickness writing have to offer readers?—
Bekah Waalkes,
The Atlantic,
25 Sep. 2025
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As if Minos inspired such hatred, such fear and disgust, that the feelings themselves boiled up from Daedalus’s heart and gushed out through the tap to cook the wicked king alive.—
Seamus Sullivan
September 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Sep. 2025
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Within seconds of inhaling the foul odor, the white dog springs back in disgust and hastily shuffles to the other side of the bed, as though trying to escape the smell altogether.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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And hatred rather than ideology is the animating force?—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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More violence, more anger, more hatred.—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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What the American people really deserve is not mass resignations or brief, fake shutdowns that stir up political chaos in Washington, DC, while Americans across the country watch in horror or turn a blind eye in disgust.—
Nicole Russell,
USA Today,
2 Oct. 2025
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Over the course of nine films that span more than 50 years, not once does horror film icon Leatherface take sensible chainsaw safety precautions.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Nausea.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nausea. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
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