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faint

[feynt] / feɪnt /






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However, those catalogues may not include every star in the field, particularly objects that are extremely faint, distant or difficult to identify with confidence.

From Science Daily Jul. 30, 2026

“Apocalypse Now” on the 405 is not for the faint of heart.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 16, 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

Another call takes Charlotte and Connor to a sheltered housing development and an elderly resident who is feeling faint.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

Then JB’s voice came through again, faint but distinct.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

Only after she genuinely faints during a session, rather than perfectly executing the choreographed dramatic swoon, does he relent to a respite at their home in New York.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

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

For this project, the researchers aimed to build a platform that could measure Raman signals far fainter than those detected by existing Raman systems.

From Science Daily Dec. 23, 2025

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

He told them rescue dogs that find bodies at disaster sites can also be trained to detect the fainter scent of a person who had been dead for years, even someone who had been cremated.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 4, 2025

It kept on saying Yahhhhh, Yahhhhh, Yaaahhhhhhhhh, getting fainter and fainter.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

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

And from somewhere, just like when I was beneath the Tree of Power, I heard the faintest drumming.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

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

Last year, Price fainted while appearing at a groundbreaking for the upgrade of the Los Angeles Convention Center, which is located in his district.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 4, 2026

She closed the door and almost fainted when she saw the older boy standing there in the kitchen, swaying slightly.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

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

During the 1978 inquest investigation, Nix had initially claimed Andrea took a bath on her own and later complained of itchy legs before fainting, jurors heard.

From BBC Jun. 19, 2026

“It gets very airless in there,” said the policeman, “there’s been complaints about it often, but nothing’s ever done. We’ve had ladies fainting in there before.”

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier




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