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Recent Examples of diseased
Avoid diseased plants or weeds that have gone to seed, and skip plastic, glass or anything that won’t break down.
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Jessica Damiano, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
Researchers studied her cells by cultivating them in a laboratory and saw indications of a selective advantage, with healthy skin cells favored over diseased ones.
—Jerome Groopman, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
Researchers have seen benefits in animal models of PD last for weeks after treatment, and early human trials are under way, using optical fibers that put the light close to the diseased cells.
—Lynne Peeples, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2026
Start by cutting off any branches that are diseased, dead, or broken, as well as those that are crossing and rubbing against each other.
—Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 12 Mar. 2026
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Jessica Damiano, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
Researchers studied her cells by cultivating them in a laboratory and saw indications of a selective advantage, with healthy skin cells favored over diseased ones.
—Jerome Groopman, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
Researchers have seen benefits in animal models of PD last for weeks after treatment, and early human trials are under way, using optical fibers that put the light close to the diseased cells.
—Lynne Peeples, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2026
Start by cutting off any branches that are diseased, dead, or broken, as well as those that are crossing and rubbing against each other.
—Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 12 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for diseased
Adjective
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Still, coaches worked to make the best of unfit practice locations and engage unsettled kids.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2026
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All this while the federal government’s main tool for regulating medical software, the Food and Drug Administration’s device-approval process, is structurally unfit for regulating autonomous clinical AI.—
Alon Bergman,
STAT,
11 May 2026
Adjective
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And the Lebanese government has a history of being in-- incapacitated or unable.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
10 May 2026
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Hospital representatives said the petitions were intended to protect incapacitated patients who are too disabled to make their own decisions and who have no family or friends willing or able to take charge.—
Christy Gutowski,
Chicago Tribune,
3 May 2026
Adjective
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In this new show, unlikely friends Marsha and Wendy wrestle with the mysteries of the teenage heart (and dragons), while jumping between alchemy class, dodgeball and theater club in a melodrama about the unusual humans and mutants that attend an ailing public boarding school.—
Kevin Giraud,
Variety,
11 May 2026
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Karelina had traveled to Russia to visit her elderly grandparents, while Kurmasheva returned to support her ailing mother.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
10 May 2026
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According to the Cleveland Clinic, a stem cell transplant can treat — and sometimes cure — certain blood disorders, cancers and autoimmune diseases by replacing unhealthy stem cells with healthy ones, either from the patient's own bone marrow or donated stem cells from another person.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
23 May 2026
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There are aspects of relationships that can be abnormal or unhealthy.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
23 May 2026
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That night, both the President and his wife periodically fled upstairs to check on their most beloved son, the eleven-year-old Willie, sick with a fever that would kill him two weeks later.—
Thomas Mallon,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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What this narrative neglects are all the ways treatment might cause terrible side effects, or the long period one spends being sick, and how one’s identity may have changed in the interim.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
Adjective
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To kill bacteria, use hot water for washing diapers and bed linens if someone is unwell.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
15 May 2026
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Others become seriously unwell.—
Matt Slater,
New York Times,
9 May 2026
Adjective
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In the film, Efira plays the director of a Parisian nursing home and Okamoto a terminally ill Japanese theater director whose arrival there draws the two women into an increasingly intimate reckoning with mortality.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
22 May 2026
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Emergency calls obtained by The Charlotte Observer detailed what was happening inside GM Charlotte Technical Center the day the 41-year-old driver reportedly fell ill in a Concord racing simulator.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
22 May 2026
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Because his stance on climate change conflicts with overwhelming scientific consensus, the president has removed climate information from federal websites, approved scientifically unsound reports that favor fossil fuels, and gutted key scientific agencies and boards.—
Joseph Bonasia,
The Orlando Sentinel,
15 May 2026
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Denials based on unwritten or misapplied rules or standards, or perhaps on subjective personal preferences, would be on unsound standing.—
Nicole R. Kurtz,
Miami Herald,
7 May 2026
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“Diseased.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diseased. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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