faint
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“Every day is getting better,” Bronkhorst said in a faint voice on Aug. 6 from his bed at Jiahui International Hospital in Shanghai.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Finding these faint and relatively young remnants gives astronomers another piece of the puzzle surrounding the full life cycle of radio galaxies.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
According to local reports, they called out "don't worry, we're here to rescue you" - and heard back a faint "okay".
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
When he does speak, his words carry a faint Southern twang from his upbringing in Alabama.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
Gradually he became aware of a faint mewing sound coming from the other side of the hill.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Yasser regularly faints when she tries to stand.
From Barron's ● Mar. 22, 2026
When Louise, angling for attention, participates in her church’s Inner Beauty pageant, her talent is holding her breath until she faints.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
When a green resident faints, her fellow physicians wait for her to revive before tossing her back into the fray.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2025
Played by Colin Firth, Dr Swire faints and falls to the floor.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2025
Ida Nee said, “This is ridiculous. No one faints in my classes. I don’t believe in fainting.”
From "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo
The instrument is expected to detect planets that are 100 million times fainter than their host stars, a performance 100 to 1,000 times better than existing space-based coronagraphs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
To spot S301 -- which is two billion times fainter than the star Betelgeuse in our sky -- the team of astronomers used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in the Chilean desert.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
It is more than one million times fainter than the Sun's surface, which is why it is invisible in normal daylight.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
As brands go through creative directors like tissues, the connection to what made a house beloved seems to get fainter and fainter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
She remembered that as she mounted the stairs with John’s heavy weight in her arms, and as she entered the door, she heard music, which became perceptibly fainter as Florence closed the door behind her.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
Sigmund Freud famously asked, “What does a woman want,” while confessing that he hadn’t the faintest idea.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Like hundreds of volunteers and rescuers, he has spent hours clinging to the faintest hope there may be survivors in the rubble, despite the 7.4 magnitude quake that struck this coffee capital on Monday morning.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
K2-18b may be silent for now, but scientists are steadily improving their ability to detect even the faintest signs of technology beyond our solar system if they are ever there to be heard.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
"I really haven't the faintest idea as to what I've done," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
He did not have the faintest idea what he was supposed to do next.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
At the end of July, he fainted during a court hearing and was treated in intensive care.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Many supporters questioned the decision to play Musiala so soon after he fainted on Saturday.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
I learned about chocolatines last year from the Journal’s Joshua Robinson, who fainted from embarrassment when I walked into a Toulouse patisserie and ordered a “chocolatini,” like it was happy hour at an airport Chili’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
When the “not guilty” verdicts were announced, she fainted and had to receive medical attention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Six more big strong men fainted when they saw him.
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
A majority -- 87 percent -- of respondents reported at least one health-related impact during the sweltering week, including disrupted sleep, tiredness at work as well as dizziness, fainting and a faster heartbeat.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
For all its immortal ideas and all those outsized news reports of people fainting, “The Exorcist” could’ve faded from memory if so much of what came after didn’t prove to be a cheap imitation.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
As it worsens, however, it can lead to fatigue, chest pain, shortness of breath, fainting, heart failure, and in some cases premature death.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
Does anyone need to lie down on an official FIFA-issued fainting couch?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
He sits with Maxine on the fainting couch, leafing through a coffee table book she’d helped to edit on eighteenth-century French wallpapers, one side of the book resting on each of their knees.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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