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cough

[kawf, kof] / kɔf, kɒf /
NOUN
expelled air with sound
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Advil maker Haleon’s HLN -15.88%decrease; red down pointing triangle shares dove after the company cut its outlook for the year and weak sales for cough medications weighed on results.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

“I have to take care of my instrument,” he notes, adding he relies on cough drops and throat-coat tea.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026

"The forest fires have had a huge impact, especially on everyone's health," says 22-year-old Natari Victoria, who was admitted to a health centre in Palangkarya after suffering from a cough for more than a week.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

"I've been sick, I've been short of breath, I've had a cough too, but because I must provide care... I just carry on," the 28-year-old told AFP on Thursday at a public clinic.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

She let out a hacking cough and pulled her thin coat tighter around her shoulders, despite the August heat.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

"Even inside the house, the smoke gets in. Honestly, since the haze, my body aches, as if I've been beaten up. The immune system is down. I get coughs and colds easily."

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

“If you designed your Muse avatar or if you designed your Dot in the likeness of your pet, perhaps you would feel a little bit more forgiving if your pet coughs up a hairball, right?”

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026

RSV is a common cause of coughs and colds,, external and although infections usually get better by themselves, they can sometimes be serious for babies and older adults, according to the NHS.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The measles spreads easily through the air when an infected person breathes, talks, coughs or sneezes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Between coughs, the girls all started talking at once.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

But they were roughly even so they coughed up for the meal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Around 20,000 years ago, a cave was home to generations of owls that regularly coughed up pellets containing the bones of their prey.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

I coughed over the sink, hardly able to get a breath, until I gagged and drooled into the drain.

From Slate ● Jun. 13, 2026

In his opening remarks Friday night, Giuliani coughed and said, “My voice is a little under the weather, so I won’t be able to speak as loudly as I usually do.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2026

He drew deeply, coughed intensely—it was then that I first truly noticed he had a viciously fluid-sounding persistent cough—and gestured to Gretchen.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen

“Or whatever the digital version of coughing up a hairball is.”

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026

Larger nodules can cause shortness of breath, chest pain and persistent coughing -- sometimes with blood.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

Respiratory droplets carrying the Yersinia bacteria are released through coughing or sneezing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

She had gone back to the raisin fields days after she was exposed, even though her throat was sore and she was coughing, because she needed the money.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

When I finally passed out during a coughing fit, I was left alone, and when I came to, we were heading for the shore.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo


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