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diagnose

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


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After Paul's death, Kate wrote to the health board to complain about how long it took to diagnose him with scabies.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

And it left me with a question: Why is our mental-health system so quick to diagnose and so slow to examine the full context of a person’s suffering?

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

And he’ll undergo imaging to diagnose the injury.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 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

Take, for instance, the efforts at Cook County Hospital to help emergency room doctors better diagnose chest pain.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

Pilots typically are required to undergo a medical screening at least once a year but face suspension of their licenses if they receive certain mental-health diagnoses or are prescribed related medication.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Stage 4 diagnoses did fall, but Stage 3 diagnoses rose, possibly because cancers were being caught earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Helen said awareness of young onset dementia had grown since the 90s - but diagnoses still took too long.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

"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

Oskamp found that as he gave the psychologists more and more information about Kidd, their confidence in the accuracy of their diagnoses increased dramatically.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

She suffered repeated seizures, was diagnosed with a potentially fatal blood clot, and experienced wild swings in blood pressure.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026

He diagnosed France’s fiscal problem quite simply – an inability to grow the economy.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

He explained that a friend who has also been diagnosed with the disease has been sharing her journey and that has “helped ... so much.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

The veteran broadcaster had been diagnosed with stage four lung cancer in January 2023 and in the years that followed, was a prominent campaigner supporting assisted dying.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

And then I got diagnosed with depression, and I started on my first round of medication, and I couldn’t focus on the game at all.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

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

He had been diagnosing and treating the illness since he’d first set foot in Haiti.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French




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