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allergy

[al-er-jee] / ˈæl ər dʒi /
NOUN
reaction to certain food, material, etc.
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Example Sentences

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“Mamdani getting allergy shots so Rama and he can get a cat is literally all the sweet things I need to hear to wake up to this morning,” one person wrote on X.

From The Wall Street Journal

If the person asks you to explain how it works, just pretend to trip, then throw yourself into the shrimp tower, yell something about a shellfish allergy, and run.

From Barron's

Mr. Cleveland had to clean up the mess and replace everybody’s stuff and pay for the blotched-up lady to get an allergy shot, so he was pretty mad.

From Literature

The deal gives GSK access to RAPT’s food allergy program, which could contribute to treating a large population with significant needs, including 17 million patients in the U.S., they write.

From The Wall Street Journal

She has cold urticaria, a rare allergy which can cause her to have a reaction to as little as a gust of cool wind in summer.

From BBC