prevalent
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Prevalent among older women, that acute condition involves heart attack-like symptoms, including chest pain and pressure, light-headedness and dread.
From Salon • Dec. 14, 2024
Prevalent in night shift workers, in this new study, the international team reveal how circadian misalignment can profoundly alter the brain's regulation of hormones controlling hunger to the detriment of metabolic health.
From Science Daily • Oct. 11, 2023
Prevalent in parts of Africa, the Middle East and Asia, cutting has been performed in communities of different cultures and faiths.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2023
Prevalent along the front line, the exchange operates like a kind of shadow economy, soldiers say, in which units acquire weapons or equipment and trade them for supplies they need urgently.
From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2022
On November 13, 1793, just a few days after President Washington’s early-morning ride, publisher Mathew Carey issued what would become a best-selling book: A Short Account of the Malignant Fever, Lately Prevalent in Philadelphia....
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
Vocabulary lists containing prevalent
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