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relapse

[ri-laps, ri-laps, ree-laps] / rɪˈlæps, rɪˈlæps, ˈri læps /




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Jordan, who has lived with an eating disorder since he was 12, said the photoshoot was the culmination of a dream he had held onto since a relapse in his teens.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

After a major relapse, and at Bartlett’s urging, she set up an online fundraiser to ease the financial strain of medical treatment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

"Once you've got the diagnosis, IBD doesn't go away. Even if you become symptom-free on the current treatments, we know there's a likelihood you're going to have a flare or relapse," said Dr. Samson.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

“Despite advances in treatment, an unmet need remains for oral therapies that can deliver robust relapse prevention, slow disability progression, while maintaining a favorable safety profile,” Novartis Chief Medical Officer Shreeram Aradhye said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Then, for fear that its brief relapse into prose might have hardened the tyrant’s heart, it launched out breathlessly into Genevieve, tor the third time.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

The European Commission approved Cenrifki for secondary progressive multiple sclerosis without relapses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

If a patient relapses or breaks a rule in a rehab facility, the knee-jerk impulse should not be to discharge them from the program.

From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2025

She’s not sure how her policy on relapses fits in.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025

Trials show cladribine can reduce the number and severity of relapses.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2025

It’s best to get an experienced one, for he relapses into silence.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

In a phase one clinical trial sponsored by RS Oncology, LLC, patients with relapsed mesothelioma received an experimental drug that controlled disease progression in 67% of participants.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026

Yemen relapsed into war in July after years of relative calm punctured by sporadic violence and deepening poverty.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

But all patients had previously relapsed or failed to respond to other immunotherapies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

Her MS hasn’t relapsed in a while, but she has limited sensation in her hands, feet and ankles, and says she sometimes has trouble with her short-term memory.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 9, 2025

He braced himself before entering his dad’s room, fearing he might have relapsed, but when he went in, a happy scene awaited him.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

In 2025, Italy became the first country to pass a national law recognising obesity as a chronic, progressive and relapsing disease.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

This approach revealed traces of ancient pathogens, including the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis and the organism responsible for louse-borne relapsing fever, Borrelia recurrentis.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 22, 2026

Almost a decade later, the Times looks to be relapsing into bad form.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2026

“Obesity is a chronic, relapsing, biologically defended disease,” says Stanford.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026

She remained abed ten years, gradually growing better, but never completely recovering, relapsing periodically into her paralytic state.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright




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