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malady

[mal-uh-dee] / ˈmæl ə di /


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When Alma is summoned to a doctor’s office to learn about Elisabet’s malady, the space—like Elisabet’s room itself—is characterless and denuded of nearly all décor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

“Maddie’s Secret” isn’t much of a secret, not if you remember those made-for-TV malady movies that turned subjects like bulimia into hypnotic melodramas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

For most of the finale’s 46 minutes, she and Ava argue over why Deborah, someone who’s never said die, would so easily surrender to a treatable malady.

From Salon ● May 29, 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

Another malady suffered by the Berkeley transplants was severe culture shock.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

Still others described unexplained rashes, outbreaks of diarrhea and infestations of lice, among a host of other maladies for which many said they were offered only Tylenol or allergy medication.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 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

Research shows that such stress can cause an increase in physical, psychological and emotional illness, along with other maladies, up to and including death.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025

Once my modifications are complete, the Whisperer will become a wondrous healing device, boys—a device capable of curing maladies of the mind.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart


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