AIDSin a sentencegrouped by contextual meaning
AIDS as in: He has AIDS.
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Many people who spread AIDS are unaware that they have HIV.AIDS = a serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through bodily fluids especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles
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My dad, in particular, was afraid of transfusions because he had read about people getting AIDS or other diseases from tainted blood. (source)AIDS = a serious (fatal if not treated) disease of the immune system transmitted through bodily fluids especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles
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This started another rumor—that he might have died of AIDS. (source)
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It's the way people catch AIDS, right? (source)
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And Liberace's manager denied that the entertainer was a victim of AIDS; Liberace's recent weight loss was the result, the manager said, of a watermelon-only diet. (source)
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He could have AIDS. (source)
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Need I remind you that this was the age of the R-strain syphilis and also of the infamous AIDS epidemic, which, once they spread to the population at large, eliminated many young sexually active people from the reproductive pool? (source)AIDS = a serious (fatal if not treated) disease of the immune system transmitted through bodily fluids especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles
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Some girls journeying north cut off their hair, strap their breasts, and try to pass for boys. Others scrawl on their chests, TENGO SIDA. ("I have AIDS.") (source)
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Whoever...whatever...attacked me used a type of weapon known in the Core as an AIDS II virus. (source)
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I have made important discoveries about the AIDS and Ebola viruses. (source)
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Mothers with AIDS can spread the disease to their babies by breast-feeding them. (source)
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We'll talk later about what heart disease means in a story, or tuberculosis or cancer or AIDS. (source)
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Meena is healthy for now, but she has never had an AIDS test. (source)
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Some sort of AIDS regulation. (source)
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AIDS wasn't a factor then. (source)
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Even today, there are a lot of people who believe that some diseases—AIDS, for example—are God's punishment. (source)
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At some point, the Band-Aids I'd applied had fallen off. (source)Aids = part of a product name for a small adhesive bandage
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The doctors think that eventually he'll need to wear hearing aids, though. (source)aids = people or things that assist with something
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Then he hands two of the little Band-Aids to Mai and two to Lev. (source)Aids = part of a product name for a small adhesive bandage
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"Capitalist's Daughter Aids Bolshevik Murderer?" he said. (source)Aids = people or things that assist with something
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I passed on learning aids for fear of appearing condescending. (source)
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He took the Band-Aids and slathered antibiotic ointment over the raw and puckered wound on his thumb. (source)Aids = part of a product name for a small adhesive bandage
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Some were impossible without the gym equipment, but others, especially from his personal defense class, he could do without any aids. (source)aids = people or things that assist with something
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Well, I can have some sleep aids here tonight if you need them. (source)
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Leo counted two arm slings, one pair of crutches, an eye patch, six Ace bandages, and about seven thousand Band-Aids. (source)Aids = part of a product name for a small adhesive bandage
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Meanwhile, a flourishing black-market trade in aids to concentration, mental agility and wakefulness had sprung up among the fifth— and seventh-years. (source)aids = people or things that assist with something
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There are three Smart Aids in Englewood, the small, somnolent beach town where I live. (source)
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I was desperate to vanish into the background—to slip invisibly among the Chinoiserie patterns like a fish in a coral reef— and yet it seemed I drew unwanted attention to myself hundreds of times a day: by having to ask for every little item, whether a wash cloth or the Band-Aids or the pencil sharpener; by not having a key, always having to ring when I came and went —even by my well-intentioned efforts to make my own bed in the morning (it was better just to let Irenka or Esperenza do it, Mrs. Barbour explained, as they were used to doing it and did a better job with the corners). (source)Aids = part of a product name for a small adhesive bandage
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Might I suggest Band-Aids? (source)
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