itchy
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"Anyone who notices hair shedding, an itchy or red scalp or nail changes should mention it to their doctor rather than discontinue therapy."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
A mosquito researcher offers tips and tricks to avoid leaving the trail with itchy red bumps from our local bloodsuckers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 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
The next morning, she woke up to a "horrible realisation", feeling itchy with red lumps over her body and blood spots smeared on the bedding — the tell-tale signs of bed bugs, she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Their bites left itchy red marks on the skin of just about every soldier.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
Scratch that bite now, and it only gets itchier later.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2022
Even our backyards’ poison ivy is getting stronger and itchier.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2021
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
Still, this paragraph made me feel itchier than the rest.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2019
The white stockings are new though, and even itchier than the brown ones I wear to school.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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
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