Adjective That dog can eat almost anything with no ill effects. They had been subjected to months of ill treatment. Adverb He is being ill served by his advisers. Please don't think ill of me. He was a good man who never spoke ill of anyone. Noun chicken pox and the other ills that were once a fixture of childhood idealistic people who try to cure all of our society's illsSee More
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Yet that same month, something similarly unthinkable allegedly happened again: Baribeau did not come to the hospital in a timely fashion for a desperately ill patient.BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2022 One critically ill non-COVID-19 patient had a serious heart condition. Mollie Simon, ProPublica, 7 Sep. 2022 My research suggests that the pudding spread to lots of places in Ireland—in part, perhaps, thanks to its blandness, many viewed it as suitable fare for the ill and infirm. Chris Baraniuk, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2022 Wounds that cut deep point to the damage done in the previous decades, but when Lewis fell ill, Tolkien visited his old friend and collaborator in hospital and at home. Emma Fraser, Town & Country, 4 Sep. 2022 But one night, a mentally ill man broke the head off the Madonna and then killed himself.San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2022 Last year, Francis approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of John Paul I — that of the recovery of a critically ill 11-year-old girl in 2011 in Buenos Aires, the hometown of the current pope.Fox News, 4 Sep. 2022 Plunking this recessive central figure down into a stale mix of tropes and themes — fraught homecoming, terminally ill mother, aggrieved LGBTQ child — Pallaoro fails to tap into anything especially surprising or insightful. Jon Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2022 Congress has an ethical and moral duty to right this injustice – especially for terminally ill veterans who risked their lives to defend our country and deserve a peaceful death – by repealing the Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction Act. Ginger Fairchild, CNN, 3 Sep. 2022
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Even among some of its supporters, there’s a sense that BART had ill prepared for the challenges and growth of the past decade. Ricardo Cano, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Sep. 2022 In Providence, Mayor Jorge Elorza defended his administration’s response to the storm after mayoral candidate Brett Smiley, on the ballot in next week’s Democratic primary, said the city was ill-prepared for the deluge. Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2022 However, there is nothing worse than being ill prepared while sitting through a 3-ish hour game, especially those of us who are obligated to stay all four quarters. Josie Howell | Jhowell@al.com, al, 22 Aug. 2022 Ukraine’s services appear to have read too much into signs that Russian forces were ill-prepared for full-scale combat, resisting Western warnings of an invasion that came within miles of the capital. Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2022 Ukraine’s services appear to have read too much into signs that Russian forces were ill-prepared for full-scale combat, resisting Western warnings of an invasion that came within several miles of the capital. Greg Miller And Catherine Belton, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2022 Already occurring more often, heat waves are forecast to increase in potency and duration because of climate change, say scientists – who fear the globe is ill-prepared to handle the punishing toll. Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2022 The record-setting heat that roasted London showed how ill-prepared northern European cities are for extreme weather driven by global warming.New York Times, 28 July 2022 Many are ill-prepared to manage and protect the wealth of personally identifiable information. Indy Guha, Forbes, 18 July 2022
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Despite ExxonMobil’s implications to the contrary, individual consumers cannot reverse climate change—or any other environmental ill, for that matter—and their choices are no substitute for systemic reforms. Michelle Nijhuis, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022 The director is little helped by Barrymore, whose E.T.-era button-cuteness ill-serves this particular project. Clark Collis, EW.com, 14 May 2022 Doncic committed nearly half of those, but Westbrook is receiving far more criticism for the same ill. Duane Rankin, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2022 Though the Republican governor opposed marijuana legalization as a social ill, her administration’s arguments in court centered on technical violations to the South Dakota Constitution. From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2021 This societal ill seemed to peak with Princess Diana’s death in 1997 but has only gotten worse in the decades since. Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2021 In Chinese eyes, each of its targets is associated with a longstanding social ill.WSJ, 26 Sep. 2021 The state doesn’t have enough intensive care unit beds to treat the ill.al, 9 Sep. 2021 Harris and Biden, too, have been fully vaccinated, which public health experts say should protect nearly everyone from falling serious ill. Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 20 July 2021 See More