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migraine

[mahy-grayn, mee-] / ˈmaɪ greɪn, ˈmi- /
NOUN
serious headache
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The deluge included more than 700 papers covering hundreds of problems across number theory, algebraic geometry and other fields with names that could give people haunted by high-school math a migraine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

"There are various barriers to people getting good help for migraine," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Munro said headaches were a symptom of migraine attacks, but so too are "visual disturbances, nausea and vomiting, sometimes numbness and tingling, sometimes abdominal pain, sometimes dizziness".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

My mother remarked, approvingly, that the lighting didn’t give her a migraine.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

I went inside and sat on my bed facing the wall and tried to stop thinking, but I had a severe migraine that night.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

They include migraines, cerebrovascular disease, fibromyalgia, lupus, and other rare autoimmune or genetic conditions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

“Listen, y’all … some headaches are not just headaches or migraines, they can be much worse and a warning sign. Get a brain scan if you can and take those headaches seriously.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Katie, 41, said her daughter Phoebe, now five, started to be sick and was getting severe headaches in February, but was told "it was just migraines" by a GP.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

Four years on, she says she is still struggling with the after-effects and suffers from chronic migraines, short term memory loss and photophobia - an extreme intolerance to bright lights.

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

For example, I learned that, once a month, the general suffered from blinding migraines that lasted almost a week.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini


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