malady
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By treating actual adults—the chat participants weren’t teenagers—with kid gloves, they contribute to the cultural malady of infantilization.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025
O’Sullivan, who quickly ruled out epilepsy, came to suspect the young woman was actually suffering from another common malady: overdiagnosis.
From Salon • May 13, 2025
"It's part of my make-up and I would have had the same malady had I been a taxi driver."
From BBC • Nov. 17, 2024
Take the malady ailing Disney’s creative side, if it’s even a malady at all.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2024
Equally typical is a tendency to equate the risk from some obscure and exotic malady with the chances of suffering from heart and circulatory disease, from which about 12,000 Americans die each week.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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