as in medication
a substance or preparation used to treat disease
if you don't take all the doses of your medicine, you might get sick again
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Recent Examples of medicine
New Uses for Old Drugs: Scientists are using machine learning to find new treatments among thousands of old medicines.
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Eli Tan, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
One reason is that the group's clinics are absorbing some of the patients who have lost their doctor to concierge medicine.
—Karen Brown, NPR, 28 Mar. 2025
The provisions in the spending legislation approved earlier this month included $8 billion for rental assistance for 7 million people; $2.1 billion in food and medicine for starving people, and for military support abroad; $900 for NASA and $600 million to combat drug trafficking.
—Bart Jansen, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
Missionaries also distributed money, medicine and clothes to women in need, simultaneously offering them a handout and a hand up.
—Jenna Deep, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
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Eli Tan, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
One reason is that the group's clinics are absorbing some of the patients who have lost their doctor to concierge medicine.
—Karen Brown, NPR, 28 Mar. 2025
The provisions in the spending legislation approved earlier this month included $8 billion for rental assistance for 7 million people; $2.1 billion in food and medicine for starving people, and for military support abroad; $900 for NASA and $600 million to combat drug trafficking.
—Bart Jansen, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025
Missionaries also distributed money, medicine and clothes to women in need, simultaneously offering them a handout and a hand up.
—Jenna Deep, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for medicine
Noun
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His office initially attributed the pause to an adverse reaction to new medication.—
Katy Golvala,
Hartford Courant,
5 Apr. 2025
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Orange could be due to certain medications, or an issue with the liver or bile duct.—
Hannah Yasharoff,
USA Today,
5 Apr. 2025
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These are difficult times for drug discovery and manufacturing.—
Steve Brozak,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Sheen made headlines in the mid-2010s for hardcore drug use, rehab stints, legal issues, outbursts, on-set antics and multiple romantic entanglements.—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
3 Apr. 2025
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Moreover, tariffs are not an effective remedy for trade imbalances, according to Jason Furman, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
8 Apr. 2025
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Water activities are the perfect remedy to the sweaty season and some South Florida waterparks are beginning to reopen, while many others remain closed until the summer.—
Martin Vassolo,
Axios,
7 Apr. 2025
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There’s no cure for allergic asthma, but medications and lifestyle changes can help control symptoms.—
Susan Russell,
Verywell Health,
8 Apr. 2025
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Season 1 chronicled Joel and Ellie’s perilous journey across a country ravaged by a cordyceps pandemic to a hospital run by a militia group, where Ellie’s unique immunity to the infection could be used to create a cure.—
Mary McNamara,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Medicine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/medicine. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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