The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Participants who used smartphones on the toilet had a 46 percent higher risk of hemorrhoids compared with those who did not.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2026
Up to 40% of men and women will have hemorrhoids at some point in their lives, according to Dr. Ali Rezaie, a gastroenterologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
At this point, we’ve all more or less looked hemorrhoids square in the eye and decided it was worthwhile.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2025
“Here are some of the things that are more popular than Congress: hemorrhoids, Nickelback, traffic jams, cockroaches, root canals, colonoscopies, herpes,” Schwarzenegger said in a 2017 Facebook video.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2025
The one-eyed angel nodded a perfunctory “Hola” to Amarante, folded its beat-up wings—whose feathers rattled obscenely like those of a zopilote—and, like someone catering to hemorrhoids, eased painfully down nearby with an audible “Whew.”
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
