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Recent Examples of bedridden
Owner Katie came down with a cold earlier this week, keeping her bedridden for most of the day.
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John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Apr. 2025
Fifty years ago, in April 1975, the Khmer Rouge forcibly evacuated all residents (including bedridden hospital patients) of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and all other sizable population centers.
—Ray Cavanaugh, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
Supposedly back at the ranch, bedridden by his tuberculosis, Holliday emerges from the shadows of the Arizona high desert to surprise the lightning-fast Ringo, who was expecting to make easy work of Kurt Russell’s Wyatt Earp.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2025
Wilson remained bedridden in the hospital for a few weeks as her body started recovering from the trauma.
—Ben Church, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2025
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John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Apr. 2025
Fifty years ago, in April 1975, the Khmer Rouge forcibly evacuated all residents (including bedridden hospital patients) of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and all other sizable population centers.
—Ray Cavanaugh, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
Supposedly back at the ranch, bedridden by his tuberculosis, Holliday emerges from the shadows of the Arizona high desert to surprise the lightning-fast Ringo, who was expecting to make easy work of Kurt Russell’s Wyatt Earp.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2025
Wilson remained bedridden in the hospital for a few weeks as her body started recovering from the trauma.
—Ben Church, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bedridden
Adjective
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No matter how much you are tempted, sickly plants should be kept out of the greenhouse.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
16 Apr. 2025
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But does that mean that vegans are going against human’s evolutionary history and are bound to be weak, sickly, and even stupid?—
Marianne Krasny,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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He isn’t expected to return until at least the end of May after receiving a cortisone shot in the ailing ankle this week.—
Melissa Lockard,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
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Its viewership increased by more than 30x the prior week, Netflix said, when Pope Francis was ailing but still alive.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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With this, Trump is offering Putin a frail fig leaf of respectability.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
24 Apr. 2025
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And about one-quarter of all Medicaid benefits, more than $200 billion, goes to long-term care for about 9 million frail older adults and people with disabilities.—
Howard Gleckman,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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As a junior at Yale, Yung had become a citizen in the 1850s, but in the harsher legal climate of 1898 the State Department decided his citizenship was invalid.—
Steve Inskeep,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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When Min’s wealthy grandmother (Youn Yuh-jung) pressures him to leave his artist life behind for an important role in the family’s corporation in Korea, Min scrambles to find a way to stay in the U.S., given that his student visa is about to become invalid.—
Abigail Lee,
Variety,
16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The move came after state public health inspectors fined Golden Legacy for handcuffing an incapacitated patient’s ankle to the bed in violation of state and federal laws.—
Don Thompson,
Mercury News,
22 Apr. 2025
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The 25th Amendment also has a controversial provision that allows the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet, or the majority of another body that Congress designated by law, to initiate the transfer of powers from an incapacitated president to the vice president.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA TODAY,
20 Mar. 2025
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“Bedridden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bedridden. Accessed 15 May. 2025.
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