seasickness

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Recent Examples of seasickness Hodge was amused that Yamasaki was prone to seasickness. Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026 Anybody can explore Antarctica Antarctic explorers don’t need Endurance — just several thousand dollars, seasickness patches and a bathing suit for the polar plunge aboard an expedition cruise from Argentina. 15. Gabe Hiatt, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2026 Besides some seasickness during a sailing lesson one morning — who can blame them? Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2025 Legend has it that in 1561, as the doomed monarch sailed from France to seize the throne of Scotland, she was struck by seasickness. Air Mail, 22 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for seasickness
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Noun
  • Truitt attended the Air Force Academy to earn her undergraduate degree, but experiencing bouts of airsickness on military planes led her to explore a different path.
    Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Bill insisted on occupying the front passenger seat of the van due to severe motion sickness.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Apr. 2026
  • This year, one group is studying how astronauts' bodies move during transitions into and out of microgravity moments that can cause motion sickness and affect performance.
    Nick Lunemann, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Use this after a night of one too many cocktails, or simply add to your in-flight water to prevent dehydration or mountain sickness.
    Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 4 July 2024
  • These researchers would like to pave the way to therapies for chronic mountain sickness, but first need to better define what living and working at this altitude does to human bodies.
    STAT staff, STAT, 24 Dec. 2019
Noun
  • The outlet reported that, in the other scenario, guides and hotel staff, according to the CIB probe, have been coached to scare trekkers at high altitude, where altitude sickness can occur.
    Alex Nitzberg, FOXNews.com, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The idea took on fresh urgency when the six cofounders learned that their horseman’s wife had suffered life-threatening altitude sickness while harvesting cordyceps—despite living above 12,500 feet her entire life.
    Erin Levi, Time, 12 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • In the 1960s, Thalidomide, a drug marketed for morning sickness, left children around the world with irreversible birth defects; the United States avoided such a fate thanks to the FDA’s oversight.
    Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Rose recommended ginger and cinnamon, for morning sickness, and lemon balm, for postpartum depression.
    Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • For some, the trip means dealing with car sickness.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 28 Nov. 2025

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“Seasickness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seasickness. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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