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acute

[uh-kyoot] / əˈkyut /






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During periods of acute stress, most recently in 2020, it extended swap lines to nine other central banks, including in Mexico, South Korea and Brazil.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

The heart failure caused him to suffer acute pulmonary oedema, when fluid builds up in the lungs, the preliminary autopsy confirmed.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

He died of heart failure and acute pulmonary edema -- a condition where fluid accumulates in the lungs -- two weeks after going under the knife.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

Those risks are especially acute for waters near storm drains, creeks and rivers, it said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

Why, Granddaddy had told me about a parrot who had lived past his century and learned over four hundred conversational phrases, as acute a mimic as any human being...

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly




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