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Recent Examples of pox
Both conditions are caused by viruses closely associated with squirrels, although squirrel pox is more common among red squirrels typically in the United Kingdom.
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Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
Squirrel disease spreading outdoors Some suspected the squirrels carried squirrel pox, a rare virus in the US that often kills red squirrels.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2025
Well, is that not the flamenco dress calling the chicken-pox patient spotted?
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
The Obama-era vegetable push was a pox on the nation; now veggies are back in all their green glory.
—Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pox
Noun
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Events invented so people could look bad (during the voodoo weddings at ExoTiki 2000, the Cacophonists threw raw, rancid chicken entrails at each other) are now used as a backdrop for people to showcase their interesting lives.—
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But beneath this viral joke among African Americans lurks a hidden history of slavery, voodoo, and rebellion.—
Noun
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In part, this is just a curse of timing for the tournaments being played.—
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In Jujutsu Kaisen, heroic jujutsu sorcerers wage war against demonic creatures called curses and the curse users, who wield jujutsu powers for evil.—
Noun
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During this spell, Boland barely gave a thing away.—
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Lydia Ko went through such a spell.—
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“Pox.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pox. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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