bouts
Example Sentences
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"This pattern is biologically plausible: experimental studies have shown that interrupting prolonged sitting with short bouts of activity can improve metabolic responses compared with uninterrupted sitting."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
If bouts of rain wasn't enough, parts of southern England and Wales will be buffeted by strong winds at times too.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Greg Byrne, who lives just outside Tucson, Arizona, has had two bouts of melanoma and ended up in an earlier Moderna study of this treatment after having surgery to remove the cancer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
When bouts of dissociation started to become par for the course, wearing hardware reminded me I was in a body on planet Earth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
The list of “defective” geniuses went on and on: Newton was a sickly, fragile child; John Calvin was severely asthmatic; Darwin suffered crippling bouts of diarrhea and near-catatonic depression.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
