- plural of bout.
bouts
Example Sentences
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Greg Byrne, who lives just outside Tucson, Arizona, has had two bouts of melanoma and ended up in an earlier Moderna study of this treatment after having surgery to remove the cancer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
While the meteorological summer comes to a close at the end of August it is not unusual for the UK for experience bouts of heat in September.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
When bouts of dissociation started to become par for the course, wearing hardware reminded me I was in a body on planet Earth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
At this point, investors have grown accustomed to brief bouts of volatility — spurred by tariffs, the war with Iran or creeping worries about the payoff on artificial-intelligence-related investments.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
He was prone to lengthy bouts of depression.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
