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Recent Examples of murrain
Otherwise nature is outraged, floods will again sweep the land and murrains strike our cattle.
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Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2016
Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for murrain
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If signs of infection were observed, she was confined to a hospital.Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
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These infections lead to hundreds of thousands of ER visits and hospitalizations, as well as around 900 deaths, every year.Alex Knapp, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
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Especially in summer, heat illness has affected more than 30,000 people and caused hundreds of deaths in Florida.Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2025
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Patrik Laine missed a couple of games due to illness this week, but that does not seem to be a long-term issue.Chris Johnston, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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That kind of malady might require substantial time and attention to cure.Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 3 Jan. 2025
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There may be no malady more frightening than prion diseases.Christie Wilcox, science.org, 27 Dec. 2024
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Summary Celery has been used throughout history as a folk medicine to relieve many ailments.Hannah Coakley, MSPH, RDN, Verywell Health, 15 Jan. 2025
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Most common ailments aren’t connected to a single gene; polygenic risk scores aim to predict the lifetime likelihood of conditions, such as diabetes, in which many genes contribute to a person’s risk.Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2025
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Highly pathogenic avian influenza can infect domestic poultry, resulting in high sickness and death rates, officials said, and in this current outbreak, cattle, cats and other mammals also are susceptible.Chuck Fieldman, Chicago Tribune, 7 Jan. 2025
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Some damages are tax-free under Section 104 of the tax code, but only physical injuries and physical sickness qualify.Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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And then there's like, the people who won't admit that some of this is social contagion, some of this is just a TikTok trend that got out of hand.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
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Investors may punish French stocks and bonds, which could lead to contagion in other areas of the EU where the euro currency is used because of the size of France's national public debt, about $3 trillion, according to the French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies.Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2024
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The trial spurred a national reckoning about the blight of rape culture.John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024
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Winemakers, scientists, and government officials searched for a cure to the blight.Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 15 Dec. 2024
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Is Jill Biden Edith Wilson, an overprotective First Lady clinging to power in the face of her husband’s obvious infirmity?airmail.news, airmail.news, 13 July 2024
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His zeal seemed even stranger when juxtaposed with a sensible approach to my own infirmities.Kayla Aletha Welch, Longreads, 19 Nov. 2024
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“Murrain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/murrain. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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