severity
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In 2024, Buckingham Palace made Charles’ cancer diagnosis public without specifying the severity of his illness.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Still, “we don’t know what the issues are, and we don’t know the severity and the magnitude.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
"The result is paralysis with rare exceptions due either to the severity of the crimes or US intervention," Novik added.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Referee Maj Forsberg said Cunningham was not penalised for her reaction because "we deemed her reaction to the severity of the contact to be acceptable".
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Three air-raid alerts had been established in a tier of severity.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
War risk cover is organised in seven "buckets" spanning different severities of conflict.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2025
It follows hundreds of asthma patients of different ages, sexes, and disease severities.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2023
“Now, high general inflation and ever higher increases in used and new car prices clearly drive up claims costs for insurers, given that claims frequencies and severities are returning to normal.”
From Washington Times ● Feb. 28, 2022
In an untreated forest, what some might see as fuel, others “see as incredible habitat for wildlife because it’s a mosaic of different burn severities that is extraordinarily biodiverse.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2022
He knew about as much as was known about the anatomy of the brain and the symptoms and severities of lesion and thrombus.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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