ague
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Added to that, they ague their aircraft are quiet and emissions-free.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2022
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
“If I didn’t stay to see some of the fight,” she tells us, “I would forever be filled with the echoes of regret and the ague of remorse.”
From Washington Post
He walked with a stick, and all the time he’d been sitting behind John Faa he’d been trembling as if with an ague.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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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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What will be their condition, landing on a burning shore abounding with agues and mosquitoes, in the most unwholesome season of the whole year?
From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams
This happens from a similar cause in cold fits of agues; and in less degree to many debilitated constitutions, whose extremities are generally cold and pale.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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