queasy
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Plus, this year’s Rush Week revealed a queasy new strategy to thin the recruiting ranks.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
Some said they did have side effects, with one feeling tired and a bit queasy "almost like nerves" when he first started but adding he felt that was worth it for the results he saw.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Maurten’s head of sports tech, Josh Rowe, recalls how, not long ago, major races used to have sick buckets at the finish line for queasy finishers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
It was the only thing within a multi-gate radius — a landscape of breakfast smash burgers and pepperoni pizza bagels — that didn’t make me queasy.
From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2026
The stink of dying flowers is making me queasy.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
He underlaid moments of suspense with rumbling jazz percussion and made the execution scene queasier with a slinking piccolo motif over a drooping swing rhythm.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 30, 2020
The longer I was there, the queasier I felt.
From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2017
But in spite of Elle's queasier exploitation aspects — an expected Verhoeven staple — and its why-would-anyone-do-that questions, it's a mesmerizing movie.
From The Verge ● Sep. 12, 2016
And every movie-within-the-movie had this in common, too: It was conceived and undertaken in a mood of bluff, comradely good humor—even if, during the re-creation process itself, queasier emotions often began to arise.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2015
Without the solid earth beneath my feet, my stomach grew even queasier.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
That’s why Schwarzenegger was grateful for the season’s queasiest plot turn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2025
In January 2015, I spent the longest, queasiest week of my life on a cruise ship filled with conspiracy theorists.
From The Guardian ● May 2, 2019
As the #MeToo movement approaches its anniversary, this feels like one of the queasiest revelations it has produced.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2018
Persuading even the queasiest of readers to spend hours learning about an extravagant variety of invertebrates, the effect of Richard Conniffs Svineless Wonders is to render the repulsive beautiful.
From SAT Tests
As even the queasiest guest quickly realized, something was different.
From Time Magazine Archive
Vocabulary lists containing queasy
Flowers for Algernon
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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