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Earlier Friday, Dix said teams at the Trishuli 3A hydropower project believed they had heard a faint response from inside the tunnel.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

According to local reports, they called out "don't worry, we're here to rescue you" - and heard back a faint "okay".

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Astronomers primarily detect HI through its extremely faint 21-centimeter radio emission line.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

When he does speak, his words carry a faint Southern twang from his upbringing in Alabama.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

Bear in mind that a platza is not for the faint of heart.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Yasser regularly faints when she tries to stand.

From Barron's ● Mar. 22, 2026

When Louise, angling for attention, participates in her church’s Inner Beauty pageant, her talent is holding her breath until she faints.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

In the pilot, the third-year medical student faints the first time in the exam room and has painfully awkward exchanges with her peers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2025

O’Sullivan determined that Darcie was suffering psychosomatic seizures and faints, very real but not caused by a physical problem.

From Salon ● May 13, 2025

Ida Nee said, “This is ridiculous. No one faints in my classes. I don’t believe in fainting.”

From "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo

Instead of producing similar flares on each return, they become steadily fainter.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

During a total solar eclipse, the Moon completely blocks the bright disk of the Sun, making the much fainter solar corona visible.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

It is more than one million times fainter than the Sun's surface, which is why it is invisible in normal daylight.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

As brands go through creative directors like tissues, the connection to what made a house beloved seems to get fainter and fainter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

But the helicopter’s sound grew fainter, and then it faded away completely.

From "I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005" by Lauren Tarshis

Like hundreds of volunteers and rescuers, he has spent hours clinging to the faintest hope there may be survivors in the rubble, despite the 7.4 magnitude quake that struck this coffee capital on Monday morning.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

It’s sprinkled with the faintest touch of spice but happily lacks the tired tropes of most romantasy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

Defeat at the Gabba left only the keenest optimists holding on to the faintest hope.

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025

The results revealed how the faintest breeze, just 0.2 meters per second, combined with higher voltage further increased the likelihood of a worm hitting its target.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2025

Oddly, Cassano was as likely to direct his anger at profitable traders as at unprofitable ones, for the anger was triggered not by financial loss but by the faintest whiff of insurrection.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

At the end of July, he fainted during a court hearing and was treated in intensive care.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

She said one student fainted after hearing about the disaster, but many initially underestimated the danger and waited for classmates who were in a maths lesson.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

I learned about chocolatines last year from the Journal’s Joshua Robinson, who fainted from embarrassment when I walked into a Toulouse patisserie and ordered a “chocolatini,” like it was happy hour at an airport Chili’s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

She got hot standing at the grill and fainted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026

If Mother thought I’d fainted due to sickness, I’d be in for it.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

A majority -- 87 percent -- of respondents reported at least one health-related impact during the sweltering week, including disrupted sleep, tiredness at work as well as dizziness, fainting and a faster heartbeat.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

For all its immortal ideas and all those outsized news reports of people fainting, “The Exorcist” could’ve faded from memory if so much of what came after didn’t prove to be a cheap imitation.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

She also experienced very low energy, hair loss, severe dizziness, fainting spells from low blood sugar and brain fog.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

As it worsens, however, it can lead to fatigue, chest pain, shortness of breath, fainting, heart failure, and in some cases premature death.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026

Mrs. Coulter hesitated; her eyes closed, she seemed to sway as if she were fainting; but she kept her balance and opened her eyes again, with an infinite beautiful sadness in them.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman