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chronic English

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chronic

If something is chronic, it happens all the time. Michelle is a chronic worrier who gets upset about everything. If something is chronic, it has happened for a long time. My father has chronic back pain since he was injured at work 5 years ago. If something is chronic, it is difficult to stop. My brother is a chronic smoker and is unable to quit.

chronic

being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering chronic indigestion a chronic shortage of funds a chronic invalid habitual a chronic smoker of long duration chronic money problems

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Simple sentences

My conjunctivitis is chronic.
There is a chronic oversupply of rice in Japan.
She suffers from a chronic malady.
I'm suffering from chronic constipation.
He suffers from chronic overestimation of himself. Wherever he goes, he thinks no one can hold a candle to him.
Tom suffers from chronic pain.
Tom suffers from chronic back pain.
I have chronic dermatitis.
She suffers from a chronic illness.

Movie subtitles

And a pearl, so I am told, is the result of a chronic irritation on an oyster.
But when the fatigue becomes chronic, they're usually through.
He's almost reached the chronic line.
Your Schneider hit the chronic-fatigue line this morning.
It's a chronic disease and it's incurable.
No, there's only one real chronic sickness: Hunger.
They are chronic aggressors.
My dictionary says it's chronic, it doesn't mention death.
Continues to suffer, however, from a condition of. chronic inertia accompanied by symptoms of extreme terror.
Or are you not, in fact, a chronic and habitual liar?!
Asano's chronic illness has flared up?
Chronic insomnia.
The chronic use of an alias is not consistent with your story of sudden temptation and unpremeditated impulse.
I suffer from chronic seasickness.
Gives him chronic indigestion.
It's a chronic condition and probably nothing serious.
Suffering from a chronic diphtheria of the nose. he had been relieved of his command a month before. and flown back to a hospital in Germany.
Mr Saint-Forget, I told you last week that your chronic cheerfulness is not becoming here.
There are enough chronic ailments on that council to make them think twice.
I've thought about murder, suicide, chronic alcoholism, but none of those things satisfy me.
Only lovesickness and a chronic shortage of cash are excluded.
I don't share your taste for degenerates, chronic psychopaths and society Don Juans.
No history of chronic gastric trouble such as one would expect to find in the classic method of arsenic poisoning.
Are you saying the boy had a chronic heart condition?
Exactly. A very wealthy man with a chronic heart condition.
I'd Iike to burn some moxa at the threshold to cure Hisamatsu of the chronic disease that makes her flap her beautiful kimono sleeves and invite men in.
Well, whatever it is, I hope you straighten it out before I get chronic indigestion.
The question is, Frau Helm, were you lying then, are you lying now? Or are you not, in fact, a chronic and habitual liar?
The doctor says this migraine could become chronic.
Something chronic.
There are symptoms of exhibitionism chronic, ambidexterity is also latent.
Hell, that's my chronic complaint every time we talk.
He's in the hospital with his chronic problems.
Can we not debate this on the telephone. because I've got a temperature. and I'm getting my chronic Los Angeles nausea again.
It was only a chronic mastitis.
Now, man rose off his four legs and developed tools, machinery, agriculture and a chronic pain in his lower back.
The patient also suffers from chronic bronchitis.

News and current affairs

Nearly one billion people are trapped in chronic hunger - perhaps 100 million more than two years ago.
Failures of rainfall contribute not only to famines and chronic hunger, but also to the onset of violence when hungry people clash over scarce food and water.
When an agricultural research unit called the World Agroforestry Center discovered that a certain tree could help African farmers grow more food, they introduced a new and valuable approach to overcoming Africa's chronic food crisis.
Political and economic reforms over the past decade were supposed to lead the country out of chronic economic crisis.
A chronic budget deficit was brought under control, infrastructure upgraded, and the banking sector strengthened.
Because America's economy is so large, and the dollar so central to global finance, chronic US budget deficits mean huge global repercussions.
But the failure of this administration runs deeper than its chronic and intentional diversion of resources away from the types of policies that keep people safe from disaster.
These cells have the potential to become every cell-type in the body, a potential which may lead to cures for many chronic diseases.
The fact that North Korea's close neighbors seem unable to grasp this seems to confirm that Asian disunity is not just stupid, but chronic and willful.
Studies have shown that there is a significant positive association between a higher intake of fruits and vegetables and reduced risk of chronic disease.
It also is unclear whether oxidative stress is a primary cause or a secondary phenomenon of chronic diseases, as well as of the aging process.
Many ailments that may afflict an economy are chronic, not acute, and thus call for other types of treatment.
All of the presidential candidates had made wild promises; but the absence of significant achievement, such as resolving the country's chronic shortages of gas and electricity, helped to fuel the massive anti-Morsi mobilization.
The global economy is suffering from a chronic demand shortfall, which can be remedied through sustained growth in government spending.
While the legislation does too little to address America's problem of chronic and rising budget deficits, the damage that it inflicts on the economy in the short term is likely to be limited.
Without addressing the root of the problem - America's chronic saving shortfall - it is ludicrous to believe that there can be a bilateral solution for a multilateral problem.
In an era of open-ended US government budget deficits and chronic shortfalls in personal saving, America is doomed to suffer subpar savings and massive multilateral trade deficits for as far as the eye can see.
International investors were initially quite willing to finance the government, but risk premia started to increase when the deficits became chronic.
But chronic hunger remains pervasive, particularly in developing countries, which are affected most by crop shortages and food-price volatility.
If Europe, for its part, fails to respond to the challenges of the twenty-first century, it will face chronic economic stagnation, rising social tension, and political instability.
Germany might rightly argue that it has followed a relatively laissez-faire attitude towards trade, and that it should not be punished, despite its chronic surpluses.
They suffered from chronic vomiting, seizures, and muscle weakness, sending them and their parents on an odyssey of medical examinations and tests.
Land grabs, chronic corruption, impunity, the inability to enforce contracts, and the fragmentation and ineffectiveness of aid deterred foreign and domestic investment further.
Some might expect that, nearly 30 years later, the area around the reactor remains a wasteland, sparsely populated by genetically damaged animals exposed to chronic radiation across multiple generations.
South Africa is a notable exception, offering the best prospect for driving regional economic integration, but it, too, has chronic social problems and, compared to East Asia, anemic economic growth.
But chronic stalemate has confronted many Asian democracies with the threat of being discredited, a potential for violence, and the prospect of economic decline.
If immigration countries suffer from chronic unemployment because wages are overly generous and rigid, as seems the case in most West European countries, migrants who find work will simply displace nationals from their jobs.
The new SDGs set a lofty goal: for the first time, world leaders have vowed to reduce premature deaths caused by chronic illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.
Chronic diseases are the main - and growing - cause of death in developed and developing countries alike. And more than two billion people still lack access to essential medicines.
Some 28 million people die from chronic diseases in low- and middle-income countries each year, accounting for roughly three-quarters of all deaths caused by chronic disease globally.

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