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Added to that, they ague their aircraft are quiet and emissions-free.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2022
A century and a half later, malaria — or ague, as it was called — was rampant in the United States, especially on the frontier.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2020
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
The appointment was for half an hour ago, and I’m still here, sitting in the reception room flicking through 1 ague, thinking about getting up and walking out.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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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
In 1763, an English clergyman, Edward Stone, found that willow tea eased the agues of malaria.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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 low marshy situations, the introduction of that manufacture has prevented more rheumatisms, colds, and agues, than all the medicines ever used there.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Eaton, Mary, fl. 1823-1849
Quinine, kwin′ēn, ki-nēn′, or kwī′nīn, n. a colourless, inodorous, and very bitter alkaloid, obtained from the bark of the Cinchona tree, its salts used for agues and fevers.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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