fever
Example Sentences
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Malaria is rampant at the camps, and last year, the miner said, he came home to find he had malaria, dengue fever and kidney failure.
Nervousness around AI seems to have reached fever pitch.
From Barron's
"My bum felt like it was boiling, I felt like I had a fever," she said.
From BBC
The U.K. government has advised against nearly all travel to the Central African Republic, and Brown said he was warned about rebel fighters, bandits, poachers, Russian mercenaries, dengue fever and the Ebola virus.
What was lacking was much of an Olympic fever, at least in Milan, where most people avoided the high ticket prices and watched the competition on television.
From Los Angeles Times
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