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Discover LudwigThe phrase "ailments you" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It appears to be a fragment and lacks context to convey a clear meaning.
Example: "The doctor will discuss the ailments you are experiencing during your appointment."
Alternatives: "conditions you" or "issues you".
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For the rest of the world, the main concerns are the ailments you do not catch.Read more in this week's print edition here.
When you look at the definitions psychiatrists habitually use to define various ailments, you see that they contain vague words that wouldn't pass muster in any actual scientific analysis: "excessive," "binge," "anxious".
Search out those ailments you have painful experience of (constipation perhaps? Shantaram), or just flick through until something catches your eye (itchy teeth? Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King).
The moment his character appears in "Hollywood Ending," whining about hoof and mouth disease and other imaginary ailments, you know you're back in Woody's World, a place as safe and familiar as your childhood bedroom.
The beef-rich soup may even cure ailments you didn't know you had.
When someone experiences depression, physical ailments you already have can be made worse, Greden explains.
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"I think if you have a heart ailment, you need to be extremely careful," she said.
Writer Manuel de Melo has defined it as "a pleasure you suffer, an ailment you enjoy".
But after a few hours, they can give you sore ear cartilage, which is such a weird ailment you're almost embarrassed to mention it.
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Who would be proud of the fact that we have the highest incidence of almost every self-inflicted modern ailment you can name, from heart disease, lung cancer and obesity to alcoholism?
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