malady

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By treating actual adults—the chat participants weren’t teenagers—with kid gloves, they contribute to the cultural malady of infantilization.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

Take the malady ailing Disney’s creative side, if it’s even a malady at all.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2024

The new study builds upon his lab's discovery and validation of free-water imaging as a reliable, noninvasive biomarker for another neurodegenerative malady, Parkinson's disease.

From Science Daily • Mar. 6, 2024

Navarro is tortured with concerns that the psychological malady that claimed the lives of her mother and sister is taking hold of her, too.

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2024

Equally typical is a tendency to equate the risk from some obscure and exotic malady with the chances of suffering from heart and circulatory disease, from which about 12,000 Americans die each week.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos