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

But said rescue also referenced a clinical-sounding malady known as "single kitten syndrome," a behavioral term that did not exist two decades ago.

From Salon • Dec. 6, 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