itchy
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A fetid stench remained in the neighborhood, and several residents reported feeling nausea and itchy throats and eyes weeks after the fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
"After a while I started feeling extremely unwell and tired. I started losing my hair, I got itchy all over my body, but the main symptom was fatigue."
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Those stocks appear to be burning a hole in your pocket, but it’s not always wise to scratch itchy feet, as this Moneyist reader discovered.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
"A mouse can't say that it's itchy," Duan said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
He imagined the fleas and ticks crawling from the dog onto him, and it made him itchy.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
Scratch that bite now, and it only gets itchier later.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2022
The researchers surmised that increased levels of CO2 in coming decades would lead to bigger, faster growing, and itchier poison ivy plants.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2021
A year into the shutdown, one’s finger on the keyboard pause button gets itchier by the day.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2021
His fast-forward finger, though, seems a bit itchier than everyone else’s.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2013
The more Jinny thought about it, the itchier she felt.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
Musk had the biggest wallet, and the itchiest tweeting finger, and the widest eyes.
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2022
As a result, investors are equipped with the itchiest trigger fingers ever in one of the touchiest periods in history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2012
This bum, memorably played by Donald Pleasence, is the smelliest, itchiest, un-deloused scamp ever plucked from the rim of a rubbish barrel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even after all these years, Eddie Rickenbacker, 77, the World War I flying ace, still has the itchiest trigger finger in the West.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I’m itchy all over. I’m the itchiest in the world.”
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
