How to Use remission in a Sentence

remission

noun
  • The patient is in remission.
  • He was given remission for good behavior.
  • The others have been in remission for five to 12 months.
    WIRED, 16 Sep. 2022
  • With his cancer now in remission, Miller hopes to be back on the field in 2022.
    Siera Jones, The Courier-Journal, 24 July 2021
  • The tough teen withstood the chemo treatments and is in remission.
    Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 9 Sep. 2022
  • What are the chances this goes into remission and comes back?
    Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Oct. 2021
  • In fact, 29% were considered to be in remission at week three, the study found.
    Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
  • In April 2017 he was declared in remission, and the Texans, true to their word, took him back.
    Robert Klemko, SI.com, 12 Dec. 2017
  • By the way, April is in remission, to God be the glory, everybody.
    al, 31 July 2021
  • The mice went into remission and survived long enough to be put down for old age.
    Max G. Levy, Wired, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The problem is that a complete remission does not mean the cancer is gone.
    Gina Kolata, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Fuller had battled cancer from the age of 3, going in and out of remission.
    Jolie Lash, EW.com, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Around the time that Stevie went into remission, his mother asked the Misslers to adopt him.
    Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2022
  • One has been in remission for nearly three years, Cross said.
    Justice Amick, Indianapolis Star, 5 July 2019
  • None of the other 50 dogs in the trial stayed in remission nearly as long as Jellybean.
    Kay Lazar, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2022
  • This remission gave me time to marry my wife Caitlin and even have a daughter, named Amelia, last year.
    K.n.c., The Economist, 27 Nov. 2019
  • For the last nine months, Swanson’s disease has been in remission.
    Vikki Ortiz Healy, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Her mom, who is in remission and lives in Washington, D.C., works with her daughter at the snack bar twice a week.
    Jess Nocera, Laurel Leader, 5 July 2018
  • On Tuesday, the doctors told the family the good news: The cancer was in remission.
    Leah Asmelash, CNN, 15 Dec. 2019
  • The news of their son's cancer remission and a new baby on the way mean these two have so much to celebrate this year.
    Jessica Leigh Mattern, Country Living, 12 Feb. 2018
  • By the end of 2018, his oncologists had told him that the cancer was in remission.
    D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
  • But McGuirk said that should be weighed against the value of cancers sent into remission and lives saved.
    Andy Marso, kansascity, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Her daughter's cancer, which was in remission in 2019, has since returned and spread to her lymph nodes and chest.
    NBC News, 3 Oct. 2021
  • After two full years in remission, the cancer was back.
    Sarah Elizabeth Richards, Wired, 19 Nov. 2020
  • At this stage, Bryson and her colleagues consider the woman in a state of HIV remission.
    NBC News, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The future is bright for Butler-Figueroa, whose illness has been in remission for some years.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 12 June 2019
  • For some types of blood cancer, the therapy leads to remission in more than half of patients.
    Debby Waldman, CNN, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The two drugs enabled him to go into remission before the stem cell transplant could take place.
    Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The woman has also been in remission from cancer for 4½ years now.
    Tasnim Ahmed, CNN, 15 Feb. 2022
  • More than 40 people with lupus worldwide have now undergone CAR-T-cell therapy, and most have gone into drug-free remission.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2024

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