existing conditions
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Though many who are infected make a full recovery, young children, elderly people, pregnant women and people with existing conditions or a weakened immune system can experience severe symptoms and suffer potentially life-threatening complications.
From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026
It’s an intensifier — a force that amplifies and worsens existing conditions.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2025
Natural yard care uses existing conditions to build a supportive system, adding fewer amendments and external fertilizers.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2024
More modern approaches can take existing conditions and understand how they will evolve according to fundamental science rather than past experience.
From Scientific American • Nov. 10, 2023
Pavel’s oratory was of the unsophisticated, “hammer-and-tongs,” fiery type, yet its general effect, especially when he assailed existing conditions, was one of complaint.
From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Cahan, Abraham
