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After the brief flurry of attention in the press, cancer again became the great unmentionable, the whispered-about disease that no one spoke about publicly.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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In its earliest incarnations, the bathroom was a forbidden, whispered-about space.
What Women Want Paco Underhill 2010
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After the brief flurry of attention in the press, cancer again became the great unmentionable, the whispered-about disease that no one spoke about publicly.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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It is a chronicle of an ancient disease—once a clandestine, “whispered-about” illness—that has metamorphosed into a lethal shape-shifting entity imbued with such penetrating metaphorical, medical, scientific, and political potency that cancer is often described as the defining plague of our generation.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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In its earliest incarnations, the bathroom was a forbidden, whispered-about space.
What Women Want Paco Underhill 2010
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It is a chronicle of an ancient disease—once a clandestine, “whispered-about” illness—that has metamorphosed into a lethal shape-shifting entity imbued with such penetrating metaphorical, medical, scientific, and political potency that cancer is often described as the defining plague of our generation.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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It is a chronicle of an ancient disease—once a clandestine, “whispered-about” illness—that has metamorphosed into a lethal shape-shifting entity imbued with such penetrating metaphorical, medical, scientific, and political potency that cancer is often described as the defining plague of our generation.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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After the brief flurry of attention in the press, cancer again became the great unmentionable, the whispered-about disease that no one spoke about publicly.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Nobody famous and beloved had ever been linked to the stigmatized, whispered-about disease.
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Whatever the connection may be, adoption isn't the whispered-about, taboo topic that it has been in the past.
The Daily Barometer 2010
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