malady
Example Sentences
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By treating actual adults—the chat participants weren’t teenagers—with kid gloves, they contribute to the cultural malady of infantilization.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025
O’Sullivan, who quickly ruled out epilepsy, came to suspect the young woman was actually suffering from another common malady: overdiagnosis.
From Salon • May 13, 2025
Take the malady ailing Disney’s creative side, if it’s even a malady at all.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2024
The new study builds upon his lab's discovery and validation of free-water imaging as a reliable, noninvasive biomarker for another neurodegenerative malady, Parkinson's disease.
From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2024
Only later did I realize that the true cause of this malady was hard, merciless shivering, my muscles contracting as mechanically as if by electric impulse, all night long, every night.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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