sickishness

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Noun
  • This widespread underachievement points to a systemic malaise within Asian soccer, necessitating urgent, comprehensive reforms.
    Simon Chadwick, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • The Braves’ summer malaise is getting close to a free fall after yet another loss, this one at the hands of the visiting Cardinals at Truist Park on Tuesday.
    Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • If anyone shows signs of heat illness, promptly move them to a cool, shaded area.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 5 July 2026
  • Despite some athletes reporting illness afterward, no clear link to the water was confirmed, and the century-long psychological barrier to bathing in the Seine was finally broken.
    Camille Knight, CNN Money, 4 July 2026
Noun
  • The shipment includes emergency health kits for urgent medical care, including supplies for safe births, newborn care, disease prevention and treatment, according to the United Nations.
    Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026
  • The rabies vaccine, if administered immediately after exposure, is nearly 100% successful at preventing the disease, according to the World Health Organization.
    Kelli Arseneau, USA Today, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • Based on Alaïa Jade’s public reputation and the structural unsoundness of the bell tower, Smullen thinks an accidental death is likely.
    Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2025
  • In looking back at the history of Emtech, the colt who suffered a catastrophic breakdown in Saturday’s eighth race, it was discovered that he was once placed on the Veterinarian’s List because of unsoundness.
    John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2019
Noun
  • Booker, who is seen as a potential 2028 presidential candidate, made an explicit appeal to MAHA during a speech focused on combating the unhealthiness of the American food diet at the Center for American Progress’s Ideas Conference on Tuesday.
    Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 19 May 2026
Noun
  • At the end of the day, both doctors agree that hotel stays shouldn’t deter people from traveling altogether, since there are always ways to proactively minimize exposure and subsequent sicknesses.
    Joey Skladany, Travel + Leisure, 30 June 2026
  • Additionally, people who overexert during work or exercise may become dehydrated and susceptible to heat sickness.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • Every organization has structures generating dysfunction that survive because they are tied to incentives, performance measures, or the legacy beliefs of the people with authority to change them.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Yet the country’s dysfunctions continued in a different form.
    Armando Ledezma, New Yorker, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • The round of 32 kicked off to a dramatic start, with Brazil coming from behind to beat Japan 2-1 before Paraguay eliminated Germany in penalty kicks Monday, in one of the most shocking upsets of the tournament so far.
    Mason Leib, ABC News, 1 July 2026
  • Democrats are reeling from upsets in Colorado’s primary Tuesday night as an anti-establishment wave buried a pair of party veterans.
    Adam Beam, AJC.com, 1 July 2026
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“Sickishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sickishness. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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