malady

Example Sentences

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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

The seventh episode, “They Wanna Have Fun,” plunks down loud hints that Michael Patrick King and his writers will soon be correcting the show’s Aidan affliction and possibly replacing it with a new malady.

From Salon • Jul. 13, 2025

In a survey of 722 working parents conducted in June and July 2023, 57% reported symptoms indicative of this modern-day malady.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 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

And it seemed to the tenders of the sick that on the Halfling and on the Lady of Rohan this malady lay heavily.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien