maladies
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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
Most of Aviv’s characters wander through life uneasily, plagued by misdiagnosed, undiagnosable or undertreated maladies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 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
He was able to give aid in all manner of maladies.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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