pox

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Recent Examples of pox Many of these voters may simply be casting a pox on both the Justice Department and the defendant. Noah Rothman, National Review, 20 Dec. 2023 Rodgers, Griffith, and others last week asked that one of Fauci’s deputies, a longtime pox researcher, sit for an interview on controversial pathogen research. Sarah Owermohle, STAT, 7 June 2023 After five to seven days, all the pox will be dry scabs, which means the child is no longer contagious. Parents Editors, Parents, 3 Sep. 2023 Symptoms of monkeypox infection include fever, muscle pain and a rash or pox-like blisters. Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 28 July 2022 See all Example Sentences for pox 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pox
Noun
  • The victims, many of them elderly, were accused of using voodoo to harm the gang leader’s son.
    Azhar Fateh, Fox News, 15 Jan. 2025
  • This poor dude is stuck taking over his father’s — a father who left when Frank was 2 — New Orleans restaurant when one of the employees puts a voodoo spell over him.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 27 June 2024
Noun
  • The verdict: Its flavor was nothing short of despicably vile, which made Orly’s nail-biting polish both a gift and a curse along my journey to end my bad habit.
    Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The long-standing curse of the new-music concert is a tendency toward miscellany.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • According to the National Weather Service (NWS), the cold spell brought Chicago's air temperature down to a bone-chilling minus 15 degrees Fahrenheit on January 21.
    Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Eowyn will also bring rain showers and longer spells of rain across the north of Ireland, according to forecasters, and there was a chance of hail and snow in the hills of Scotland.
    Claire Moses, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025

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“Pox.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pox. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.

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