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rashes

noun

plural of rash
as in plagues

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Recent Examples of rashes Symptoms may present with faint rashes also in palms and soles or no rash at all. — Dr. Andrew Bernstein, Boston Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rashes
  1. plagues
  2. loads
  3. piles
  4. quantities
  5. dozens
  6. hundreds
  7. tons
  8. rafts
Noun
  • Most people go to campgrounds to escape the plagues of modern technology, so try to keep the decibels to a minimum.
    — Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2026
  • The deadliest animal to have ever roamed the earth is not the great white shark, or snakes, or even rats that caused three great plagues in history, decimating the human population at the time.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 26 July 2026
Definition of plagues
Noun
  • Presenter Zane Lowe has conducted loads of candid interviews with new and established musicians, and the company's Los Angeles studio has captured dozens of memorable performances for posterity.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 27 Sep. 2026
  • The two feature about 2,000 sensors that measure loads, airflow, vibrations and how the turbines interact with each other.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of loads
Noun
  • But large companies with cash piles and longer-term debt can avoid experiencing some of that pain in the near term.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026
  • At the pupae stage, they can be easily sorted into piles of males and females.
    — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of piles
Noun
  • The Moon’s south pole harbors substantial quantities of water ice concentrated on the floors of craters away from the reach of sublimating rays of sunlight.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Nigeria holds 26 of the roughly 60 minerals on the US critical minerals list in commercial quantities, Oduwole said, adding that Abuja’s condition for partnership is development and job creation on Nigerian soil, not raw material exports.
    — Adrian Elimian, semafor.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of quantities
Noun
  • The issue of whether or not Kalshi and Polymarket’s sports offerings are legal is being hotly litigated in dozens of states and, so far, courts are for the most part ruling against the company.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Several of his dozens of accusers were in court on Wednesday.
    — MICHAEL R. SISAK, Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of dozens
Noun
  • The approach can potentially work with samples containing only tens or hundreds of atoms, dramatically reducing the amount of material required compared with conventional NMR.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Sports organizations invest hundreds of millions of dollars in recruiting children, Buckland says.
    — Alexandra Pattillo, Scientific American, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of hundreds
Noun
  • Also, many ingredients for the final material still have to come from Earth, requiring the transport of hundreds of tons of cargo and equipment to Mars over several months.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 26 Sep. 2026
  • SpaceX says that later Starship generations are being designed to double that payload capacity to around 200 tons.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of tons
Noun
  • This type of maritime migration is different from the once-common arrivals of rafts and other homemade vessels that Cubans are known to use to escape their homeland, and the overloaded freighters and sailboats used by people fleeing Haiti.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2026
  • The Coast Guard had dropped inflatable rafts in the water nearby, but the teen — who was suffering from hypothermia — was too weak to swim to them.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2026
Definition of rafts

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“Rashes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rashes. Accessed 28 Sep. 2026.

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