- plural of ailment.
ailments
Example Sentences
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Experts estimated that close to 400,000 people remain at risk from a myriad of life altering ailments.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
The province has also recorded a surge in respiratory ailments.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Meta’s settlement won’t cure teens’ mental ailments, but it will do more good than years of further litigation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Others told of children suffering serious ailments who were shooed off with Tylenol.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
To Wilkes’s way of thinking, ancient Indian farming methods may be the cure for some of modern agriculture’s ailments.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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