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diagnose

[dahy-uhg-nohs, -nohz, dahy-uhg-nohs, -nohz] / ˈdaɪ əgˌnoʊs, -ˌnoʊz, ˌdaɪ əgˈnoʊs, -ˈnoʊz /


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The test, which is used by doctors to diagnose which type of tumour a patient has, should mean patients can start treatment including radiotherapy and chemotherapy sooner, and are spared weeks of uncertainty.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Even if I were a doctor, I wouldn’t be able to diagnose him via random clips on the internet.

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026

Even in some of the most severe cases, hormone levels sometimes dropped below the minimum thresholds typically used to diagnose primary aldosteronism.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

She uses the clips not just to diagnose what went wrong, but to consider what could have gone worse in a real-life environment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Unfortunately, this theory would also retroactively outlaw choreograph, diagnose, resurrect, edit, sculpt, sleepwalk, and hundreds of other verbs that have become completely unexceptionable.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Participants were followed for as long as three decades, allowing the team to investigate whether these infections were associated with later neurodevelopmental diagnoses and educational outcomes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

Some have also questioned whether society is now over-medicalising distress in people's lives – giving people diagnoses when what they are facing is temporary stress that they should learn to cope with.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Patients will order these cheaper, unproven products via an 800-number or the internet, skipping appointments with real doctors who can provide accurate diagnoses and proven treatments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Patients, of course, who will order these cheaper, unproven products via an 800-number or the internet, skipping appointments with real doctors who can provide accurate diagnoses and proven treatments.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

In the pipes and under the cypress tree there had been no room for furniture and the little niceties which are not only the diagnoses but the boundaries of our civilization.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

"What we found is that people diagnosed in recent years resemble the general population more closely than those who received the same diagnoses a decade ago."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

And then there’s Pearl, a former nurse Tan had diagnosed, three years earlier, with mild cognitive impairment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

It can look a lot like freshers' flu but if it's not diagnosed, it can progress very quickly and lead to seizures, brain damage and sepsis.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

The surrogate, named M.W. in court filings but who has identified herself publicly as McKenna West, said she had been pressured by the couple to have an abortion after a fetal scan diagnosed the abnormality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Unlike Rajesh, who was never formally diagnosed, Jagu was.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Healthcare professionals “are often undertrained and ill-equipped in diagnosing elder abuse.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

I’m also a physician, trained in a profession that asks us to take action by identifying risk factors, diagnosing diseases, and intervening whenever possible.

From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026

The larger challenge for Warsh is diagnosing what his predecessors got wrong.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

These particles may offer new biomarkers for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease and determining how far it has progressed.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026

Minya pronounced, as though diagnosing a disease, “Happy.”

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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