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vomit

[vom-it] / ˈvɒm ɪt /


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Contact with infected bodily fluids such as blood or vomit causes the virus to spread.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

So I texted Jim, “Coffee sounds good,” pushed send and immediately wanted to vomit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

Workers say they encounter rude or mentally unstable people and an unfortunate amount of human waste and vomit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

The disease spreads from one person to another by contact with infected bodily fluids such as blood or vomit.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

He flinched, sure a glob of vomit had grazed his hand.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

Her trolley is in a line of five banked up outside cubicles, while the patient on a bed in front vomits into a sick bowl.

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2025

Alabama prison officials said this week that they do not plan to allow him to have any food after 10 a.m. on Thursday in an effort to lower the likelihood that he vomits.

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2024

There’s the leading lady who projectile vomits a tuna sandwich on location.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

Jesse Armstrong introduces the character by stuffing him inside a Doderick suit, the Waystar answer to Disney's Goofy, and having small children overwhelm him to the point that he vomits out of the costume's eyes.

From Salon ● May 15, 2023

Or when someone vomits, the smell makes you want to hurl?

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

At one point, Djokovic turned to the corner of the court and vomited.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

His father vomited and fainted in the ambulance, as his first child became unresponsive.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

A baby boy in Kentucky vomited before becoming lethargic.

From Salon ● May 7, 2026

In the other trial, 10% of patients on the high dose and 38% on the placebo vomited.

From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025

Suddenly, just as everyone headed out the door for a tea party, Rafik vomited on the floor.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

“She started vomiting and became dizzy,” the local activist wrote of Lopez in the complaint.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Researchers also recorded nausea, vomiting, sedation levels, and how long patients remained in the hospital.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

It caught the eye of Corxel Pharmaceuticals, the biotech firm that licensed VCT220, partly because the drug causes fewer side effects like nausea and vomiting than other GLP-1s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

"Young fit patients are coming into hospital with nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, in some cases kidney failure," says endocrinologist, Prof Donal O'Shea.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Princess Sabine is craning over the edge of the table, vomiting into a bucket.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton




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