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
They give an infusion of it in colds, coughs, asthmas, and consumptions.
From Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 by James Athearn Jones
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
The asthmas, which have been induced in consequence of the recess of eruptions, especially of the leprous kind, countenance this opinion.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
The student soon learned the physiognomy of disease by going about with his master; fevers, pleurisies, asthmas, dropsies, fluxes, small-pox, sore-throats, measles, consumptions.
From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Oliver Wendell Holmes
