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Added to that, they ague their aircraft are quiet and emissions-free.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2022
Don’t come straggling into the office one morning muttering, “First, gout. Now ague, biliousness, lumbago, Saint Vitus’s dance and dropsy. What’s next, apoplexy?”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 16, 2019
So while Shakespeare had his "canker in the bud", voguish words such as palsy, purge, apoplexy, ague and balm were used by Donne repeatedly to make his work sound cutting-edge.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 24, 2012
This too shall pass, when the final games ends; and World Cup fever will again abate into soccer ague.
From Time ● Jul. 10, 2010
He had to capture some character and get out of that rest room before his ague got so bad that the sergeant had to carry him to and from the booth every day.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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Political analyst Mr Lawal said the president should appoint the best person for the job, irrespective of their ethnic origin – and agues that this is what Tinubu is doing.
From BBC ● May 26, 2025
Today, winter as well as summer, he bathes his feet in cold water every morning, a regimen he credits with making him impervious to colds and agues.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In 1763, an English clergyman, Edward Stone, found that willow tea eased the agues of malaria.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Home as it was of swamps and damps, and quashy as it is even now, it must have been in the past the breeding-ground of agues and chills innumerable.
From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
Epidemical fevers and agues and small-pox are next spoken of: of small-pox, three hundred and twenty had died in Boston, and “children were born full of the distemper.”
From Curiosities of History Boston, September Seventeenth, 1630-1880 by William W. Wheildon
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