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  • Her chronic lateness eventually cost her the job.
  • chronic fatigue syndrome†
  • the younger children had perpetual colds and suffered from chronic ground-itch;  (source)
    chronic = continual
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  • The result was chronic emptiness and boredom.  (source)
    chronic = long-lasting (of something bad)
  • Bob missed work about once a week, and he was chronically late.†  (source)
  • Across the room from the Acutes are the culls of the Combine's product, the Chronics.†  (source)
  • Nevertheless because of the chronicity of the illness and the basic deficiencies involved in personality structuring, a more complete recovery is not to be expected at this time.†  (source)
  • The effects of swainsonine poisoning are chronic, the alkaloid rarely kills outright.†  (source)
  • Chronically dehydrated, he drank as much as he could; after an 880-meter run in 106-degree heat, he downed eight orangeades and a quart of beer.†  (source)
  • Ellis and Ruckly are the youngest Chronics.†  (source)
  • Hospital records: problems related to chronic alcoholism.†  (source)
  • All that cycling gave him chronically sore shoulders.†  (source)
  • The Chronics and the Acutes don't generally mingle.†  (source)
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