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rash

[rash] / ræʃ /




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“It would have been highly presumptuous for me just to make a rash decision about what we were going to do without listening,” he said of the compact.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Measles is highly contagious, causing high fever, cough, runny nose and red, watery eyes, followed by a rash.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

But it has also sparked a rash of legal complaints, including from two women whose families say they were seriously injured in July on the ride in Valencia, just north of Los Angeles.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

People infected with typhus typically develop symptoms within one to two weeks, which may include a fever, headache, rash and body aches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

I agreed until I put my hand in the water and got stung so bad I had a rash for days.

From "Hurricane Child" by Kheryn Callender

The symptoms were frighteningly similar and frustratingly non-specific: fever, rashes, weakness, dehydration and, in some cases, seizures.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Dixon said she and others who worked in the town’s contaminated creeks developed symptoms like dizziness and rashes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

People showed strange boils and rashes that volunteers photographed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

Measles causes fever, respiratory symptoms and skin rashes.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

His face looked much brighter than in the morning, and the rashes seemed to be clearing.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

As written, the recipe needs nothing more than a generous swipe of cultured butter and a plate of soft scrambled eggs, maybe a rasher of bacon if you’re feeling traditional.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2025

Braised wagyu beef cheek was less tender than it should have been, but butter and dark chocolate enriched the sauce, cambozola sharpened the accompanying gratin, and a crisp rasher of speck capped the dish.

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2018

Matt made a sandwich with two angus patties with red onion, cheddar, caramelized onions, rasher bacon, grilled pineapple, a fried egg, tomato chili jam and aioli wrapped in lettuce.

From Time ● Aug. 4, 2015

David Lean's grimly black-and-white Oliver Twist, released in 1948, muffles the book's raw, coarse alternation of murder and mockery, which Dickens likened to the layers of meat and fat in a rasher of streaky bacon.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2011

There was much more than she'd asked for: hot bread, butter and honey and blackberry preserves, a rasher of bacon and a soft- boiled egg, a wedge of cheese, a pot of mint tea.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Show business is fear-driven, and that fuels Deborah and Ava’s rashest decisions more than anything else.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2025

But there were officials in place who could temper his rashest impulses.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 22, 2019

It wasn’t remotely the same, of course, and the overstatement rebounded against Strauss, who had never said anything of the kind but was soon being held accountable for the rashest words of his admirers.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 17, 2016

He was the prettiest, the brashest, the baddest, the fastest, the loudest, the rashest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2016

"Well, slightly rash, but not the rashest I could do."

From Bambi by Marjorie Benton Cooke


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