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itchy

[ich-ee] / ˈɪtʃ i /
ADJECTIVE
itching
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For now, while exploration is ongoing into whether approving the vaccine to younger populations is warranted, doctors recommend paying close attention to any itchy patches, even areas of skin with no visible rash.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026

A fetid stench remained in the neighborhood, and several residents reported feeling nausea and itchy throats and eyes weeks after the fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

"My cousin who isn't allergic to anything started developing allergies. My husband is the first one who had itchy eyes and throat."

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Those stocks appear to be burning a hole in your pocket, but it’s not always wise to scratch itchy feet, as this Moneyist reader discovered.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

They grew and grew, twisting and turning toward me, and too late I realized they were slender branches, thin itchy switches with barbed hooks.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

Scratch that bite now, and it only gets itchier later.

From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2022

The researchers surmised that increased levels of CO2 in coming decades would lead to bigger, faster growing, and itchier poison ivy plants.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2021

A year into the shutdown, one’s finger on the keyboard pause button gets itchier by the day.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2021

Still, this paragraph made me feel itchier than the rest.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2019

The more Jinny thought about it, the itchier she felt.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder

Musk had the biggest wallet, and the itchiest tweeting finger, and the widest eyes.

From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2022

As a result, investors are equipped with the itchiest trigger fingers ever in one of the touchiest periods in history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2012

This bum, memorably played by Donald Pleasence, is the smelliest, itchiest, un-deloused scamp ever plucked from the rim of a rubbish barrel.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even after all these years, Eddie Rickenbacker, 77, the World War I flying ace, still has the itchiest trigger finger in the West.

From Time Magazine Archive

“I’m itchy all over. I’m the itchiest in the world.”

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill


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