malady
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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
"It's part of my make-up and I would have had the same malady had I been a taxi driver."
From BBC • Nov. 17, 2024
In a survey of 722 working parents conducted in June and July 2023, 57% reported symptoms indicative of this modern-day malady.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 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
But now their art and knowledge were baffled; for there were many sick of a malady that would not be healed; and they called it the Black Shadow, for it came from the Nazgûl.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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