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Generally, it means excessive competition, but it has become a shorthand for a range of maladies, especially deflation and overcapacity.

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

His latter years were blighted by maladies, including heart problems, Parkinson’s disease, and memory and hearing loss.

Wheezy if, God forbid, the pop star has been stricken with a laryngeal malady?

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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.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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