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medicine

[med-uh-sin, med-suhn] / ˈmɛd ə sɪn, ˈmɛd sən /


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"It's like refusing to give medicine to a cancer patient because you're saying, 'What if I get sick one day?' Well, maybe you won't. Give it away before it expires."

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

My PCP confirmed that indeed, my blood pressure had dropped closer to the normal range and she cut my medicine by half!

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

The BofA analysts noted that those same-day delivery facilities carry around 90,000 of Amazon’s frequently purchased products, like paper towels, cough medicine and fresh items.

From MarketWatch Sep. 17, 2026

“I dare to say La Opinión was vital; it was like medicine for the spirit,” she said in Spanish.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

When this happened before, not long after we moved back, Dad explained how a hospital nebulizer is stronger and better able to move medicine to the lungs.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

Ehrlich’s antisyphilis drug Salvarsan, followed by the antibacterial Prontosil, showed that systematic chemical screening could yield medicines aimed at specific diseases.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

Novo Nordisk has partnered with Anthropic’s science-specific platform, Claude Science, to help speed up the discovery and development of new medicines.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

Some antibiotics, contraceptive pills and other prescription medicines can have the opposite effect, allowing caffeine to stay trapped in the body for longer and prolonging the effects.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

The bile was used in medicines while the bears themselves were often kept in poor conditions.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

Anyway, within a few minutes of Mama’s return—she asked a series of seemingly well-rehearsed questions about nurses and medicines and joint pain and how he’d been feeling—we got up to leave.

From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone

For two long weeks had he to be abed, he, who, as he himself told, had never to this day needed any healing but such as the leech who medicined his beasts could give him.

From Margery — Complete by Georg Ebers

He was flattered and pleased at being taken seriously and bidden to think in this straightforward, manly fashion; it unstrung his reserve and medicined to his wounded self-respect.

From South Wind by Norman Douglas

Would he allow me to wear out life with famine; or was the food administered to me to be medicined with death?

From The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

They are gathered together as patients in a hospital are gathered, that their sickness may be medicined and their wounds dressed.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Alexander Maclaren

The hope-inspiring ministry of Ronald's mother, first and engrossing study, and ceaseless occupation next, had effectually medicined his growing melancholy.

From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie

Certainly, now you see that all your Doctoring and medicining hath been to some purpose, and now you feel also that all herbs were made for some good effects.

From The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by A. Marsh

Go thou thy way, sorrowful and suffering soul, alone; and if thy own heart bleeds, strive thou to soothe its pangs, by medicining the wounds and healing the hurts of another.

From What Answer? by Anna E. Dickinson

A great great sin plots in the house this day; Too strong for the faithful, beyond medicining … And help stands far away.

From The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Gilbert Murray

And she Shall know no more its tender, sweet caress, Soft medicining woe.

From Lilith The Legend of the First Woman by Ada Langworthy Collier

Thus, by the secret hand of Thy medicining was my swelling abated, and the troubled and bedimmed eyesight of my mind, by the smarting anointings of healthful sorrows, was from day to day healed.

From The Confessions of St. Augustine by E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey




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