cough
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Sustained demand signals to airlines that passengers are willing to cough up the extra cash to secure a seat, said Peter Vlitas, executive vice president of partner relations for international travel brand Internova Travel Group.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Individuals who develop symptoms of measles, including fever, cough, runny nose or a rash, should call their healthcare provider before arriving for care in person.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
Net profit in the April-June period slumped 70 percent to £435 million compared with the 2025 second quarter after the company abandoned a chronic cough treatment, GSK said in an earnings statement.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
Ten-year-old Francesca has a persistent cough and struggles to swallow.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
“It is English pronunciation that is crazy. Take three words: rough, cough, and dough. Excepting for their first letter, they are all spelled alike. But how are they pronounced?”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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The measles spreads easily through the air when an infected person breathes, talks, coughs or sneezes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
It had the power to soothe the roughest of sore throats and quiet the phlegmiest of coughs.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
Teenage boys have been drenching themselves and their surroundings in its scents for decades—and drawing complaints and choking coughs for just as long.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
Measles is a highly contagious disease which is spread by coughs and sneezes or by touching things that someone with measles has coughed or sneezed on.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026
The engine coughs and makes a ruh-ruh-ruh sound.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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Around 20,000 years ago, a cave was home to generations of owls that regularly coughed up pellets containing the bones of their prey.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
Last month, it coughed up a crucial game to Manchester City and briefly lost its grip on the title race—despite once holding a nine-point lead.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
I felt a stab of pain whenever I coughed or sneezed.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2026
Italy were well in the match but three times coughed up the ball within sight of the tryline to let France off.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
“She said she's checking...the building,” coughed out a woman who'd escaped.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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Canadians and Americans who spent July coughing on smoke deserve better than a false diagnosis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
"I felt very ill because I have asthma. I started coughing and I threw up," she told AFP at a gymnasium in the northern Madrid suburb of Alcobendas.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
Since March, government figures show nearly 750 people, mostly children, have died from the highly contagious disease, which spreads easily through breathing, coughing or sneezing.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
But even after the studio won a bidding war for the story, it balked at coughing up the money for a movie worthy of Madonna’s legacy.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
Just then, the Gran broke into a coughing fit, sending the Uncle into a panic.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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