ailments
Example Sentences
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Most presidential check-up reports, though, contain details of mundane ailments: "Doctors removed a precancerous skin lesion from the tip of his nose", reads a New York Times report on Bill Clinton's annual checkup from 1996.
From BBC • May 30, 2026
Some local residents have long pressed leaders to act, saying that intrusive noise could worsen post-traumatic stress disorder and other ailments.
From Salon • Apr. 27, 2026
Bloodletting, a procedure with ancient roots, was a common treatment for many ailments.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
Expectations were insanely high for this show — Bieber’s first large-scale concert after a few years he spent in the pop-star wilderness recovering from various health ailments of both the physical and mental variety.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026
He would complain of the ailments of old age, he suffered from the most insignificant economic difficulties, and he had stopped laughing a long time back because scurvy had made his teeth drop out.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
