therapeutic
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No vaccine or therapeutic treatment exists for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola responsible for the latest outbreak of the disease, which has killed more than 15,000 people in Africa in the past half century.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
Kennedy has a real talent for taking reactionary, often sadistic ideas and reframing them to sound compassionate and therapeutic.
From Salon • May 18, 2026
She believes memory activities or writing letters to loved-ones helps, adding: "They'll never see it but it's therapeutic."
From BBC • May 16, 2026
"But especially in the psychedelic field, completely new scaffolds are incredibly rare. And this is the discovery of a brand-new therapeutic scaffold."
From Science Daily • May 14, 2026
She went around into the aisle made by the coffee table and began to give all the pillows in sight a therapeutic beating up.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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