faint
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The global clay layer contains only faint traces of the original object, making it difficult to determine exactly what struck Earth.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
After watching a competitor faint from hunger during a fight, she said, she insisted it was time to leave.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Her face displays the trademark unibrow and faint mustache — a gender-bending look that, scholars say, reflects Kahlo’s defiant repudiation of the classic female aesthetic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
"My shifts at work landed on the same days, too. During my morning shower, I felt faint; I had to be realistic and call in sick. My body was completely exhausted, aching and cramping."
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
The scrape on my calf is so faint I can barely see it now.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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
In the pilot, the third-year medical student faints the first time in the exam room and has painfully awkward exchanges with her peers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2025
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
What if he’s stuck or trapped somewhere, and faints under the mighty sun?
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
When compared with sunlit features on Mars, 3I/ATLAS appeared roughly 10,000 to 100,000 times fainter.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 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
Most cell phones now use two GPS frequency bands -- one that is older and fainter, and a second that is newer and stronger.
From Barron's ● Mar. 8, 2026
However, visibility could be affected by bright moonlight from the recent Sturgeon Moon, making it harder to see the fainter streaks.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2025
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
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
Defeat at the Gabba left only the keenest optimists holding on to the faintest hope.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025
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
It enters a chestnut effortlessly, devours the cambium cells, and positions itself for attack on the next tree before the tree has the faintest idea, chemically speaking, what hit it.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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
His father vomited and fainted in the ambulance, as his first child became unresponsive.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
One 32-year-old Berliner, Diane, told AFP she had fainted from the heat once already, despite drinking three litres of water.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
She got hot standing at the grill and fainted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
She weaved a trifle, then fainted, collapsing to the floor.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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
Pilgrims perform most of the hajj's rites outdoors where more than a million devotees gather in stifling conditions, with many attendees succumbing to heatstroke, fainting spells and even cardiac arrest triggered by the heat.
From Barron's ● May 25, 2026
Toro eventually quit in 2021 after having an incident of stress-induced fainting and chest pain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
But my storefront fainting spells became so frequent that storekeepers —for fear of going broke, I suppose—no longer gave me anything.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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