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• n  any red eruption of the skin
• n  a series of unexpected and unpleasant occurrences
  a rash of bank robberies
• s  imprudently incurring risk
  do something rash that he will forever repent"- George Meredith
• s  marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences
  a rash attempt to climb Mount Everest

• The recent rash of big ideas among heads of Central American states (see below) last week broke out in Nicaragua.
• Among them has been a rash of birth defects: in one four-month period, 11 deformed children were born; other children suffered serious heart and reproductive-organ problems.
• A rash like poison ivy from such tropical trees as the papaya.

• roseola
• efflorescence
• skin rash
• blizzard
• foolhardy
• heady
• reckless

News & Articles

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• Rash of vehicle break-ins reported on Erie's west side
  Erie police are investigating a rash of vehicle break-ins on the city's west side. Police said they have received close to a dozen reports of vehicles broken into and items stolen in an area stretching from West Eighth to West 10th streets, from Liberty Street to Weschler Avenue.
  June 15, 2013 - Erie Times-News
• After rash of break-ins, still no arrests in New Ellenton
  A rash of break-ins has folks in one Aiken County community concerned, but despite all the burglaries, not one person has been arrested. Some in New Ellenton want answers from the police.
  June 14, 2013 - News 12 Augusta
• Rash of credit card thefts
  Springfield - Police need your help with a rash of credit card thefts.
  June 14, 2013 - WAND TV 17 Decatur

Quotes

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• Lance Armstrong in International Herald Tribune
  The collarbone is broken and I have a little bit of road-rash abrasions,Armstrong said as he left Valladolid University Hospital. "I've never had this happen before, it's pretty painful. I feel really miserable."
• Brad Childress in ESPN
  I told him go home and lick your wounds and I'll do the same and we'll catch up down the road,Childress said. "Nobody wants to be rash about any decision-making, I'm sure, right now."
• Norm Coleman in San Diego Union Tribune
  He wavers from seeming to believe that mediation and meetings without preconditions can solve some of the world's most intractable problems to advocating rash, unilateral military action without the cooperation of our allies in the most sensitive... Hillary Rodham Clinton http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_Clinton&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHOarXVfe0H5lTsVdy93IEoGrJtYg CTV.ca http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080225/obama_kenya_080225/20080225%3Fhub%3DCTVNewsAt11&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE0LITbd-QWlMWSC-HK1oIn7SWKwg Feb 25, 2008 80351 108337 rashly The House is acting a little rashly," said Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., a critic of the DP World deal that has roiled Capitol Hill over the past few weeks. "This is politics by polls, I guess, and it's certainly not the best way to operate."