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medicine

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


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For the last few weeks, in addition to its usual payload of passengers, medicine, and supplies, Alaska Seaplanes has carried some unique cargo: midterm election ballots.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

Productivity is already improving, and AI may lead to breakthroughs in medicine, materials science, robotics and other areas as well.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026

Sanjay Banker, chief executive of concierge medicine provider Private Medical, says he offers a “family office for your health.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

Anyone in these groups who is considering a new activity or a more physically demanding exercise routine should first speak with their treating physician, general practitioner, or a sports medicine specialist.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

I didn’t understand how or why I survived without any proper medicine or care.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

And how much value can these medicines deliver?

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026

The Swiss maker of generic medicines is targeting a 60% internal manufacturing mix and 50-70% in-house development, which should result in financial benefits from 2030 as utilization increases, the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

“They won’t have these medicines unless they pay for them at the proper cost.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

This can be brought on by a number of factors, including certain hormone medicines, ovarian surgery or treatment for some types of cancer.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

But book after book disappointed her—they all seemed to be journals of plant life, notations about tonics or medicines.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

He followed in her wake without her knowing it, and made for his own lodging where he dressed his wounds and medicined himself till he was whole.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

For two long weeks had he to he 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 — Volume 08 by Clara Bell

But the slave-girl medicined herself and became well; and she kept what remained of the poison and sold it to those who asked for it.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 14 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

The active employment, the all-engrossing interest which would have medicined his unslumbering sorrow, were remedial agents denied by his father's unwise decree.

From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie

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

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

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

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

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

As the night struggles slowly into day so sickness climbs stealthily into health, and nature has a system of medicining her ailments which might only be thwarted by the ministrations of a mere doctor.

From Mary, Mary by Padraic Colum


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