malady
Example Sentences
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Some believed that the latest epidemic was of a "mystical malady", a common belief in some remote areas of the DRC.
From Barron's • May 24, 2026
Anxiety paralysis is real, and people who procrastinate often are not lazy, but instead suffer from this all-too-common malady.
From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026
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
The seventh episode, “They Wanna Have Fun,” plunks down loud hints that Michael Patrick King and his writers will soon be correcting the show’s Aidan affliction and possibly replacing it with a new malady.
From Salon • Jul. 13, 2025
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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