faint
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I saw canopies of Iraqi flags, bodies out every window, everyone dancing to a faint hip-hop pulse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
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
“Apocalypse Now” on the 405 is not for the faint of heart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 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
It’s muggy inside with all the windows and curtains closed to keep out the sun, and I start to feel faint.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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
Rashford faints to shoot and goalie and defenders watching two players.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2023
Ida Nee said, “This is ridiculous. No one faints in my classes. I don’t believe in fainting.”
From "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo
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
These instruments are essential for future missions that aim to directly image Earth-like planets around other stars, objects that can be ten billion times fainter than the stars they orbit.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2025
The more distant the star is, the fainter it appears.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2025
Then he picked up the fainter smells of buttercups and horses.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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
The man gave Luke the faintest of smiles, one that contained no happiness.
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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
The “Messy” hitmaker told Rolling Stone in a recent interview that she was grateful that she fainted onstage late last year, and framed the scary ordeal as a wake-up call.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026
“Interesting,” Inigo managed this time before he fainted again.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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
He had told her that he had spent more than 30 hours at sea, and was "fainting" from exhaustion by the time he reached the waters off Taean, a county on South Korea's western coast.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
Fyrian sighed, clutching his front paws to his heart and nearly fainting dead away.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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