acute
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Bean died the next year, at 60, 11 months after being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026
With cloud revenues surging amid acute shortages of semiconductors, memory, and compute, the skepticism of late 2025 has suddenly disappeared.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
The Reserve Bank of India met against a backdrop of sharp rupee depreciation and acute economic risks, as the Iran crisis drives up energy prices, threatening to stoke inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
The concern has been particularly acute in Europe, which before the conflict got about 60% of its jet fuel from refineries in the Persian Gulf.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
Colonel Cathcart demanded of Colonel Korn with a look of acute pain, tenderly nursing the spot where Colonel Korn had just jabbed him.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Vocabulary lists containing acute
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