seasickness

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Recent Examples of seasickness Raimi shows an even higher threshold for gross-out humor — no small feat, considering Östlund’s epic seasickness sequence. Peter Debruge, Variety, 26 Jan. 2026 Hodge was amused that Yamasaki was prone to seasickness. Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 19 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
  • Some cats can get motion sickness riding in cars, sometimes caused by stress and anxiety.
    Cody Godwin, USA Today, 29 May 2026
  • Barrière’s motion sickness patch, while not the first on the market, is also part of the Walmart launch.
    Laya Neelakandan, CNBC, 6 May 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
  • Declining oxygen levels cause symptoms similar to altitude sickness and in the long run can damage the lungs and other organs, while carbon dioxide buildup causes exhaustion and eventual unconsciousness.
    ABC News, ABC News, 26 May 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • Unlike Eirina, another orangutan at the zoo, Hesty did not have extreme morning sickness that required daily cups of tea.
    Noelle Phillips, Denver Post, 30 May 2026
  • 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
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 7 Jun. 2026.

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