malady

The malady of wantonness and the disease of “more” are not exclusive to American shores.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

Some believed that the latest epidemic was of a "mystical malady", a common belief in some remote areas of the DRC.

From Barron's ● May 24, 2026

The word “nostalgia” first emerged to describe what doctors back then considered a malady, thinking it unwise to long for the past.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

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

Only later did I realize that the true cause of this malady was hard, merciless shivering, my muscles contracting as mechanically as if by electric impulse, all night long, every night.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

The odds of these maladies rise dramatically in your 80s, but serious health challenges are not uncommon in your 70s, as I sadly saw with my late sister earlier this year.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026

Nearly a week after being rescued near Big Bear Lake, Jackie — half of a celebrity bald eagle couple — remains in critical condition as veterinarians continue to puzzle over the cause of her maladies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

Both she and Cushman sought fashionable “hydropathy, or water cures” for painful maladies: Cushman suffered from breast cancer, and Stebbins from a respiratory affliction likely caused by inhaling marble dust.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

"They treat a whole host of maladies," said Thomas Patton, a professor at New York state's Union College who has studied Myanmar's mystics.

From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025

When she sticks out her tongue and allows me to treat her small maladies, I can see that every one of her organs has been compromised in some way.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver