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A coral nursery is providing a faint glimmer of hope and has even seen the return of plankton-feeding fish.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

During the first test, Roman's Coronagraph Instrument observed a faint star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring galaxy.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

Treasury yields lower, but there is also “a faint smell of a crisis in the making.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

But it’s not for the faint of heart.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Leaning in, I see that I’m already starting to bruise around the cut where my glasses got me, but there’s a faint purpleness starting to spread as well.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell

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

Everybody knows that I’m the girl who’s really shy and practically faints at the sight of a boy.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

Hope still has a heartbeat, but that grows fainter by the loss.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Scaringi expects the telescope "to map more of these systems as well as fainter ones and detect similar systems in detail, ultimately helping in understanding the mysterious energy source that remains unexplained."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

To spot S301 -- which is two billion times fainter than the star Betelgeuse in our sky -- the team of astronomers used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in the Chilean desert.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

That result supports the idea that at least some distant little red dots may look isolated simply because astronomers cannot detect the much fainter galaxies surrounding them.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

As they passed, I shrank back, listening as the tramp and shouts grew fainter.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

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

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

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025

Even the faintest irritation, say a restaurant chain tinkering with its logo, can summon thousands to the same digital square.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2025

There were days when the ashen overcast thinned and now the standing trees along the road made the faintest of shadows over the snow.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

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

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

The “Messy” hitmaker told Rolling Stone in a recent interview that she was grateful that she fainted onstage late last year, and framed the scary ordeal as a wake-up call.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026

Raymie thought that she might faint, too, even though she had never fainted before and had no idea what almost fainting felt like.

From "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo

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

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

During the 1978 inquest investigation, Nix had initially claimed Andrea took a bath on her own and later complained of itchy legs before fainting, jurors heard.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

Hope there’s no repeat of the recent carnival fainting incident—Courtney’s certainly too heavy for me to lift, and I only have a learner’s permit, so I couldn’t drive us back.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone