faint
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Her face displays the trademark unibrow and faint mustache — a gender-bending look that, scholars say, reflects Kahlo’s defiant repudiation of the classic female aesthetic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
After watching a competitor faint from hunger during a fight, she said, she insisted it was time to leave.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Another call takes Charlotte and Connor to a sheltered housing development and an elderly resident who is feeling faint.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Their faint light is also easily confused with that of much closer stars in our own galaxy.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
Somewhere she thought she heard the faint sound of...Boaz?
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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
When a green resident faints, her fellow physicians wait for her to revive before tossing her back into the fray.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2025
Momma screamed, and I thought she was going to do one of those movie-style faints, she even put her hand over her forehead and staggered back a little bit.
From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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
"As we refined our 3D model of the moon the fan-shaped streaks became clearer, not fainter," Farnham said.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 8, 2026
Most cell phones now use two GPS frequency bands -- one that is older and fainter, and a second that is newer and stronger.
From Barron's ● Mar. 8, 2026
The more distant the star is, the fainter it appears.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2025
His strength had left him; and in a few moments the sound of drumming hoofs grew fainter and died away.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
"I really haven't the faintest idea as to what I've done," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
By the late 1960s, "he wasn't in the faintest a shy person", Kasmin recalled.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 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
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
Yet Leeuwenhoek never had the faintest suspicion that some of his "animalcules" caused humans to sicken and to die.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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
One 32-year-old Berliner, Diane, told AFP she had fainted from the heat once already, despite drinking three litres of water.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
Last year, Price fainted while appearing at a groundbreaking for the upgrade of the Los Angeles Convention Center, which is located in his district.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026
At 9 a.m., while we were still on the bus, I fainted and hit my head.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2026
Boomer said Mrs. Preston fainted when Eugene got to forty-five walnuts, but she didn’t really faint.
From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson
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
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
Pilgrims perform most of the hajj's rites outdoors where more than a million devotees gather in stifling conditions, with many attendees succumbing to heatstroke, fainting spells and even cardiac arrest triggered by the heat.
From Barron's ● May 25, 2026
Toro eventually quit in 2021 after having an incident of stress-induced fainting and chest pain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
I’d heard the story of Dad fainting at the doctor’s office when he was a teenager, probably more times than he’d actually fainted.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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