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- noun Plural form of
hypochondriac .
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Examples
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We all know people we classify as hypochondriacs: they spend all their time focusing on what’s wrong with them, even though nothing ever is and even though there’s no benefit, as when you check your blood pressure every hour.
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We all know people we classify as hypochondriacs: they spend all their time focusing on what’s wrong with them, even though nothing ever is and even though there’s no benefit, as when you check your blood pressure every hour.
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You think all union members are hypochondriacs or something?
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Naturally, if Mr. Merriam is elected, his official cabinet will be composed of statesmen of similar character and ideals, just as Mahatma Sinclair must be expected to surround himself with a staff of political and social hypochondriacs like himself.
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You think all union members are hypochondriacs or something?
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But the dips and douches created their own virtuous circle; from Buxton to Royal Tunbridge Wells, and even at little Askern near Doncaster, fine architecture followed the hypochondriacs and now attracts wealthy buyers.
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Naturally, if Mr. Merriam is elected, his official cabinet will be composed of statesmen of similar character and ideals, just as Mahatma Sinclair must be expected to surround himself with a staff of political and social hypochondriacs like himself.
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It is highly biased by the people who go to doctors; the ill, the hypochondriacs and the elderly.
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Naturally, if Mr. Merriam is elected, his official cabinet will be composed of statesmen of similar character and ideals, just as Mahatma Sinclair must be expected to surround himself with a staff of political and social hypochondriacs like himself.
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But like yesteryear hypochondriacs who convinced themselves they had tuberculosis—then took themselves to sanitoriums where they got it—acting on a belief in decline ultimately produces decline.
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