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sickness

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It may also be better for those who suffer from motion sickness while playing.

Those still going to work face a daily threat of sickness, and watch firsthand as their workplaces teeter on the brink of collapse because many people, rightfully, don’t want to dine out during a pandemic.

From Eater

It includes medication for such things as back pain and motion sickness.

Policymakers rightly feared that lawsuits like these would chill vaccine development—and lead to more sickness and death in the long run.

From Fortune

There’s a secondary sickness now spreading through the community, of disillusionment that this is never going to end.

The sickness in her mind was a reflection of the sickness of her life, a sickness created by her family and her society.

You already protect you, and look after you in sickness and in health.

I knew there would be good times and bad, sickness and health, broken dishwashers and giant cockroaches in the bathroom.

The news is being taken as confirmation that Kate is fully recovered from her pregnancy sickness.

And now that you mention it, I also got seasick, and had altitude sickness, and had to be rescued a few times.

Sickness had never blanched the warm glow on her cheeks, or dimmed the brightness of her large, lustrous eyes.

"Sleeping sickness" is a late stage when the organisms have invaded the cerebrospinal fluid.

So that (wonderful to relate) they had no sickness, although there was sufficient cause for it in the privations they suffered.

They arrived on the 29th January, after a very good passage, and without one hour's sickness.

The same story everywhere—lack of men, meaning extra work—which again means sickness and still greater lack of men.

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On this page you'll find 48 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sickness, such as: ailment, disease, disorder, ill health, illness, and infirmity.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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