The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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The EPA said that both times, the state recorded high levels of particulate matter, which can cause heart attacks, asthmas and chronic health conditions.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
A great many contracted asthmas and other diseases of the lungs, by inhaling steam.
From The Monikins by James Fenimore Cooper
Colds occasioned by these means often bring on asthmas and incurable consumptions.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton
Used with success in spasmodic asthmas and coughs, hysterics, pertussis, epilepsy, dropsy, scurvy, chronic rheumatism, erradic and spasmodic pains, parturition, amenorrhœa, worms, etc.—Op. cit.,
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
Oh! ye, who pine, in London smoke immured, With spirits wearied, and with pains uncured, With all the catalogue of city evils, Colds, asthmas, rheumatism, coughs, blue devils!
From Poems (1828) by Thomas Gent
