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Recent Examples of distension
Botulism Symptoms Symptoms of botulism include general weakness, dizziness, double vision, speech or swallowing difficulties, muscle weakness, abdominal distension and constipation.
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Matt Cannon, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
Symptoms, which often develop slowly, can include abdominal distension and pain, nausea, loss of appetite and constipation.
—Toria Sheffield, People.com, 25 May 2025
Bloating and Gas Bloating, also known as abdominal distension, is considered a common side effect of Ibsrela.
—Femi Aremu, Verywell Health, 8 Apr. 2025
Skrillex has never restricted his distension of sonic materials to merely supersizing his bass lines, and among other things, the voices on this album are routinely phased and retuned and cut up.
—Michaelangelo Matos, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2025
Symptoms of botulism include general weakness, dizziness, double-vision, abdominal distension and constipation, according to the FDA.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
Bloating sometimes makes your belly look bigger, which is called distention.
—Johna Burdeos, Health, 21 Jan. 2025
There, the balloon’s inflated with either liquid or gas to cause the mechanical distension needed for a continuous sensation of satiety.
—New Atlas, 8 Dec. 2024
Matt Cannon, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
Symptoms, which often develop slowly, can include abdominal distension and pain, nausea, loss of appetite and constipation.
—Toria Sheffield, People.com, 25 May 2025
Bloating and Gas Bloating, also known as abdominal distension, is considered a common side effect of Ibsrela.
—Femi Aremu, Verywell Health, 8 Apr. 2025
Skrillex has never restricted his distension of sonic materials to merely supersizing his bass lines, and among other things, the voices on this album are routinely phased and retuned and cut up.
—Michaelangelo Matos, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2025
Symptoms of botulism include general weakness, dizziness, double-vision, abdominal distension and constipation, according to the FDA.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
Bloating sometimes makes your belly look bigger, which is called distention.
—Johna Burdeos, Health, 21 Jan. 2025
There, the balloon’s inflated with either liquid or gas to cause the mechanical distension needed for a continuous sensation of satiety.
—New Atlas, 8 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for distension
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In 2005, renters paid a median $728 dollars a month for rent and utilities, the equivalent of about $1,176 in 2024, adjusted for inflation.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Pay growth remains elevated, the bank noted, but has fallen and is expected to slow significantly over the rest of the year, while services consumer price inflation has been broadly flat over recent months.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
18 Sep. 2025
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In its annual assessment report on security challenges, the Norwegian Intelligence Service warned that Russia—which operates dozens of military bases in the Arctic—would increase its focus on the Nordic countries in response to NATO enlargement to Sweden and Finland.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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In the past forty years the successes of the EU – enlargement, holding the euro together and the creation of a European identity (based on borderless travel the Erasmus programme for example).—
Mike O'Sullivan,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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American Cricket Enterprises has filed legal proceedings against USA Cricket, its strategic partner to operate Major League Cricket, in an escalation of a dispute feared to undermine cricket’s development in the sport’s number one target growth market.—
Tristan Lavalette,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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The offensive marks yet another escalation in a conflict that has roiled the Middle East as any potential ceasefire feels increasingly out of reach despite months of diplomacy.—
Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Get the right executive content in front of the right buyers at the right time, whether through engagement or amplification, and suddenly the door is a little easier to open.—
Sarah Goodall,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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These faint signals require amplification and filtering before being digitized by an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for processing.—
Ni Tao,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Sep. 2025
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Earlier that week, a TikTok user, Rachel Leary, sent a public plea asking Kylie Jenner to detail the measurements of her breast augmentation.—
Catherine Santino,
People.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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The second is identifying how data and AI become levers for value creation, from product differentiation to workforce augmentation.—
Kolawole Samuel Adebayo,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Biglari’s core demands were to stop opening new stores entirely, eliminate the development team to save money, and focus exclusively on improving existing store operations rather than expansion.—
Lily Mae Lazarus,
Fortune,
18 Sep. 2025
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The expansion team has lost each of its last five games against the Lynx, and most recently suffered one of their worst losses of the season in Game 1 on Sunday in a 29-point defeat.—
Nathan Canilao,
Mercury News,
17 Sep. 2025
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