retching
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The smell was so overwhelming that workers started retching.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
When she wasn’t retching, she lay her head in her boyfriend’s lap.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2024
Instead she found two of her co-workers vomiting, with one retching into her bowl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
She said: "My fear has always been going into his bedroom in the morning and you know it's been fatal, because that's how bad the cough and the retching has been."
From BBC ● May 22, 2023
My throat burned from the nonstop retching of phantoms in my stomach.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
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