adverse
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No moderate or severe adverse events occurred, and only 6.7% of participants experienced mild reactions that resolved on their own.
From Science Daily • Jun. 17, 2026
It halted operations in the fall, citing adverse market conditions.
From Barron's • Jun. 17, 2026
And, in its own bloody way, MMA can be beautiful: humans in extremis, rising to the occasion, pushing past their own boundaries to accomplish the impossible under the most adverse of conditions.
From Slate • Jun. 14, 2026
What makes “Recession” so vivid, and so unsettling, is that Mr. Goodspeed rarely finds recessions caused by a single one of these shocks, but by a series of adverse happenings over a short period.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Regina, ever irrepressible and somehow aware of the adverse weather, shipped a pair of galoshes to her son and admonished herself for not insisting that he take his leather coat when he left the States.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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