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Wiktionary2.0 / 1 vote

  1. flunoun

    Influenza.

    Synonyms:
    grip, grippe

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. influenza, flu, grippenoun

    an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease

    Synonyms:
    influenza, grippe

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "flu":

    influenza, flus, ulf, avian, influence

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  1. flu

    Synonyms:
    Influenza, see there

  2. flu

    Synonyms:
    influenza

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How to use flu in a sentence?

  1. Tom Hanks:

    We are just fine, dandy, we had all of the flu-like symptoms. My wife,Rita, was a little worse off than me. She had a very high temperature. And we were isolated so that we would not give it to anyone else.

  2. Antonio Banderas:

    It was more difficult than if we had shot it in the studio ... It would have been different, the extreme conditions we were working in, how cold the mine was, how dry, the methane gas that we were breathing the whole entire time, it made you feel like you had the flu, the entire crew was sick for a while. But, it brings a lot of realism, it just makes you understand the lives of these people.

  3. Fred Davis:

    This year our society has opened up more and masks have become less apparent so it’s likely we will see more flu cases this year.

  4. Anthony Fauci:

    We want to make this eventually so it's as much like getting Anthony Fauci flu vaccine as possible.

  5. Arnold Monto:

    We know there are going to be cases, with the flu, we've had experience with flu pandemics before. So we know typically the way they behave. This has been an evolving situation with a totally novel pathogen.


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