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insomnia

[in-som-nee-uh] / ɪnˈsɒm ni ə /


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That uncertainty led the team to investigate whether long-term melatonin use might be associated with heart failure among people who already had chronic insomnia.

From Science Daily Aug. 29, 2026

As her mental health declined, she sought care from doctors and was prescribed varying cocktails of medications over several months for depression and insomnia.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Dozens of other patients described symptoms such as anxiety, acute stress and insomnia, according to the report.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

The condition often presents with mood symptoms such as irritability, mood swings, insomnia and what medical professionals would call a delirium-like state, Susan Hatters-Friedman, forensic psychiatry professor at Case Western Reserve University, told the BBC.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

We didn’t have much time to hang out these days, not with the ferocious pace I’d set and the breadth of my self-assigned duties: moodiness, anxiety for the safety of every person, insomnia...

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

They prattled of the dietary and idiosyncrasies of their several insomnias as though they had been so many exacting pet animals.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-18 by Various

He contemplated the black immensity pierced by a multitude of lights, without giving a thought to all the heavy slumbers, cruel insomnias, vain dreams, spoilt pleasures, and infinitely diverse miseries that a great city contains.

From Penguin Island by Anatole France




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