faint
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Over the next 18 months, the gentle gravitational tug of the Earth, Moon and Sun, along with even light from the Sun, gave a faint push.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
A source dominated by accelerated electrons would generally be expected to produce stronger X-ray signals, so the faint emission further supported the proton explanation.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
Some pieces in Bayouth’s studio have faint, yellow colorations to them that weren’t there before, she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 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
The young woman’s face was white as chalk; twice before they reached the car, I thought she would faint.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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
O’Sullivan determined that Darcie was suffering psychosomatic seizures and faints, very real but not caused by a physical problem.
From Salon ● May 13, 2025
This is a shock and she faints, and the burned one gets out of the mirror and into the pretty one’s body.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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
Upcoming eROSITA all-sky scans will allow astronomers to observe even fainter and more distant quasars.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 27, 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
The robotic voice inside my head repeats the words, but this time fainter like a distant echo.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
By the late 1960s, "he wasn't in the faintest a shy person", Kasmin recalled.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
It’s sprinkled with the faintest touch of spice but happily lacks the tired tropes of most romantasy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 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
Even the faintest irritation, say a restaurant chain tinkering with its logo, can summon thousands to the same digital square.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2025
“Doctor Baker has not the faintest idea what you are driving at.”
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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
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
When the “not guilty” verdicts were announced, she fainted and had to receive medical attention.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
When someone fainted in the Oval Office in November, he barely reacted.
From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2026
Just before the closing of the casket, when the people who were going to faint fainted and the women in white dresses were fanning them.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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
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
My fainting spell had broken up the Daughters of Mary and sent May to the wailing wall.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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