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faint

[feynt] / feɪnt /






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The research team used the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico to follow faint radio emissions from the supernova for about 18 months.

From Science Daily

My heart is beating so fast I’m worried I might faint or throw up or both.

From Literature

While Mother and I wash and put away the few dishes we haven’t yet sold at the market, we hear a faint knock at the door.

From Literature

This time he felt a thin sharpness, like the faint beginnings of a crack in its touch-screen glass.

From Literature

He noted how a newspaper reporter from The Times, who saw the unveiling, said: "The images are very small, very faint and very blurred."

From BBC