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relapse

[ri-laps, ri-laps, ree-laps] / rɪˈlæps, rɪˈlæps, ˈri læps /




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After a major relapse, and at Bartlett’s urging, she set up an online fundraiser to ease the financial strain of medical treatment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

"When diagnosed, it is often aggressive, presenting with late-stage disease and associated with high rates of disease relapse and mortality."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

When it came time to compete again at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, she had to keep her fears of a relapse at bay.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Japan will ease overtime regulation starting Tuesday in a move meant to help spur economic growth but criticised as a relapse into the country's ingrained workaholic culture.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

Then, for fear that its brief relapse into prose might have hardened the tyrant’s heart, it launched out breathlessly into Genevieve, tor the third time.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

The European Commission approved Cenrifki for secondary progressive multiple sclerosis without relapses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

"The children's hospital in Bristol has an ongoing clinical trial specifically for Burkitt's lymphoma relapses, so the timing is good," said Lloyd.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

Although antibiotics are commonly used to treat the infection, many patients experience relapses after treatment.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2026

I wonder if my relapses into depression would happen anyway, or if they are a side effect of menopause.

From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2025

But unlike Jeffrey, she had had two relapses of her leukemia in the past four years.

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick

Ward said if Rios relapsed she likely felt deep shame about it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

After her condition relapsed before joining OpenAI, Simo decided to work remotely from Southern California.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

The Food and Drug Administration has accepted a biologics license application for anito-cel as a fourth-line treatment for patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.

From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026

But in 2017 she relapsed, with Ms Tucker saying at this stage the tumour "eventually took over".

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025

The effort succeeded; for an instant he unconsciously relapsed into his old servile manner, bent low before me, and actually fawned upon me as he replied:—

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

The results for Novartis’s Rhapsido reduce risk on a sales opportunity of at least $2 billion to $3 billion in relapsing multiple sclerosis alone, according to JPM.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

This approach revealed traces of ancient pathogens, including the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis and the organism responsible for louse-borne relapsing fever, Borrelia recurrentis.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 22, 2026

But now, almost a decade later, the Times looks to be relapsing into bad form.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2026

The New South Wales coroner said Dr Andrea Boros-Lavack had provided 40-year-old Cauchi "exemplary" care over a long period, but failed to heed warnings from family that he may be relapsing, years before the attack.

From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026

She remained abed ten years, gradually growing better, but never completely recovering, relapsing periodically into her paralytic state.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright




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