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chronically

[ kron-ik-lee ]

adverb

  1. happening constantly or habitually:

    Nationally, millions of students are chronically absent every year.

  2. happening or recurring over an extended period of time (opposed to acutely ):

    Monitoring is especially helpful for chronically ill patients wishing to avoid costly hospital stays.

    Close to 900 million people worldwide are chronically undernourished.



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Other Word Forms

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It’s also proved effective at finding people who are likely to become chronically homeless.

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So naked mole rats are chronically oxygen-deprived, but in the lab researchers have confirmed that they can survive for a little while with no oxygen at all.

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He said the Met was "chronically underfunded" and cuts to policing in London were the real-term equivalent to more than £1.1bn.

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Some remain wary of anything that might be seen as militarism even now, and the armed forces have been chronically underfunded.

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It turns the human brain into a reptilian one and activates the sympathetic nervous system, putting us into fight-or-flight mode — the same one we can get stuck in when we’re chronically lonely.

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