symptom
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Hyperawareness is not a virtue, it’s a symptom of mental illness—ask your Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder friends about it sometime.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
The favors your husband did for them were probably just a symptom, not the cause.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026
Anyone who has Googled a disturbing symptom and plunged down a rabbit hole of anxiety might fancifully imagine that hypochondria is an internet-spawned phenomenon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Dr Schnack says if you have a symptom that is "new, concerning or doesn't go away", it is "responsible health behaviour" to check the NHS website.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
It turned out the headaches were a symptom of runaway tooth decay.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
Prof Peter Johnson, NHS England's national clinical director for cancer, said detecting abdomen cancer early was "notoriously difficult" because symptoms can easily be mistaken for other less serious conditions.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
The symptoms she lived with for years included heavy bleeding, severe cramping, pelvic pain and tissue growing and getting trapped in the wrong places.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
Most depictions of autism in popular culture have highlighted people with outwardly obvious symptoms, from “Rain Man” through “Love on the Spectrum.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Because exposure may have occurred years before symptoms appeared, understanding the potential long-term effects of chlorpyrifos is particularly important.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
“The breakfast table should not be a bulletin-board for the curing of horrible dreams and depressing symptoms, but the place where a bright key-note of the day is struck.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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