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When he does speak, his words carry a faint Southern twang from his upbringing in Alabama.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

Christina Siceloff, 41 years old, can still smell a faint chemical odor after a downpour, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Dezhyna, who leaves a faint floral scent behind her as she paces the streets, is lobbying officials to rebuild a skate park.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

"These measurements are extremely difficult because carbon is a small and lightweight atom. It scatters very few X-rays, so the signal we needed to measure was quite faint."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026

Just quirked a faint, embarrassed smile and rubbed his hands across his face, as though trying to wake up.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

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

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

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

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2023

Immediately he can smell it: the perfume is so sweet, so outrageously sweet, that he nearly faints.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The predicted flare can then become fainter with each encounter, matching what astronomers have seen.

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

It is more than one million times fainter than the Sun's surface, which is why it is invisible in normal daylight.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

When compared with sunlit features on Mars, 3I/ATLAS appeared roughly 10,000 to 100,000 times fainter.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026

Faster than before he followed, but the shadow grew ever fainter to his eyes.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Sigmund Freud famously asked, “What does a woman want,” while confessing that he hadn’t the faintest idea.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Like hundreds of volunteers and rescuers, he has spent hours clinging to the faintest hope there may be survivors in the rubble, despite the 7.4 magnitude quake that struck this coffee capital on Monday morning.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 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

“What was done up to the time of his death was the faintest suggestion of a plan,” he said.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

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

When someone fainted in the Oval Office in November, he barely reacted.

From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2026

She said she didn’t need to go to a hospital and that she fainted every time she got “emotional.”

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

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

Jurors at Nix's trial heard how she had initially claimed in 1978 that Andrea had taken a bath on her own, and later complained of "itchy legs" before fainting.

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

I glanced at the crowd and briefly considered fainting.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate