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In the coming weeks, the team plans to test the coronagraph's ability to block unwanted light, an essential capability for observing faint objects near much brighter ones.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

Camilo Duran pulled one back after the break and struck a post as the Scottish champions improved, but Vangelis Pavlidis struck Benfica's fourth late on to kill any faint Celtic hopes.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

This suggests that the faint glow of stars between galaxies could potentially serve as a visible indicator of where invisible dark matter is concentrated.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

A coral nursery is providing a faint glimmer of hope and has even seen the return of plankton-feeding fish.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

As my panting subsided, I could make out the faint texture of the woven walls around me and smell the still-fresh scent of the green fronds from which they were plaited.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

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

One woman faints, and another slumps into her chair and wails.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2023

Momma screamed, and I thought she was going to do one of those movie-style faints, she even put her hand over her forehead and staggered back a little bit.

From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis

Hope still has a heartbeat, but that grows fainter by the loss.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Once those jets stop supplying energetic particles to the galaxy's large radio lobes, the particles already inside the lobes gradually lose energy, and the radio emission becomes fainter.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

Instead of producing similar flares on each return, they become steadily fainter.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 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

The Voice on the earth was now louder and more triumphant; but the voices in the sky, after singing loudly with it for a time, began to get fainter.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis

"I really haven't the faintest idea as to what I've done," he said.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

By the late 1960s, "he wasn't in the faintest a shy person", Kasmin recalled.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

She learned his signals, guessed words from the faintest cues and turned his minimal motion into living language.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

The results revealed how the faintest breeze, just 0.2 meters per second, combined with higher voltage further increased the likelihood of a worm hitting its target.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2025

But I hesitate...and hesitate some more...and then Garrett says, in the faintest of whispers: “Do it, Alyssa.”

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

"There are a lot of pupils who have fainted and who did not receive any medical attention," Jean told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

At the end of July, he fainted during a court hearing and was treated in intensive care.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 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 Charlotte Dron gave birth to her second child Luca in 2018, there was so much blood that a nurse fainted and "midwives were shouting at each other".

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

I’d heard the story of Dad fainting at the doctor’s office when he was a teenager, probably more times than he’d actually fainted.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

While it is generally considered safe when taken as prescribed, inappropriate or high-dose use can cause dizziness, fainting and a dangerously slow heart rate.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 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

She also experienced very low energy, hair loss, severe dizziness, fainting spells from low blood sugar and brain fog.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 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

With more vigour than chivalry, M. Bouc deposited the fainting lady with her head on the table.

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie