sickness
Example Sentences
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In reality, she is prone to motion sickness.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
They’ll be using their current experience to do so, including the higher sickness and death rates they’re seeing thanks to a higher uninsured or underinsured population.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
But she had to pull out at the last minute, telling fans on Thursday that she had to cancel due to sickness.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
It has been used to treat West African sleeping sickness, a chronic illness spread by the tsetse fly.
From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026
When someone falls sick, a shaman can contact the spirit that caused the sickness and try to pacify it or scare it away.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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