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ails

[eylz] / eɪlz /


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Her answer to her book’s title — “What Ails France?” — is a “righteous consensus,” the statism that “asphyxiates the country’s potential.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2022

In a Times essay in 1982 with the headline “What Ails Today’s Broadway Musical?,”

From New York Times • Jul. 31, 2019

A version of this article appears in print on February 19, 2014, on page C1 of the with the headline: A Crusader On What Ails Artists .

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2014

In Fields and Hives, Zooming In on What Ails Bees If bees were to disappear from the globe, mankind would have four years left to live.

From New York Times • Jun. 11, 2013

In Mother Shrewsbury's "What Ails Babies and Why" it's laid down emphatic that you mustn't kiss 'em.'

From Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories by Dunton, W. Herbert



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