malady
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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
You are also suffering from a very modern malady: decision paralysis.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 17, 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
O’Sullivan, who quickly ruled out epilepsy, came to suspect the young woman was actually suffering from another common malady: overdiagnosis.
From Salon ● May 13, 2025
Her malady begins far back before this day, does it not, Éomer?’
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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
Some evil spell had settled on the community: mysterious maladies swept the flocks of chickens; the cattle and sheep sickened and died.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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