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diagnosis

[dahy-uhg-noh-sis] / ˌdaɪ əgˈnoʊ sɪs /


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He jumped on the phone to speak with other former NFL players who share the diagnosis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Patients must meet certain criteria for a diagnosis: a combination of clinical symptoms and lesions characteristic of MS that show up on an MRI scan of the brain and spinal cord.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Last week, CoreWeave sneezed, the market caught a cold, and everyone became a doctor delivering a diagnosis: Either the patient is going to die or become stronger than ever.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

"So you get told, you get given your diagnosis and that's it... we're just left to it," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

I pull down books, shake them by their spines willing something to fall out—a forgotten lab result, an official diagnosis.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

According to the White House, the aim is to support policy reforms to ensure that women’s research is well-funded and that women have access to “stage-specific prevention, diagnoses, treatment, and care.”

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

The study wasn’t focused on healthcare specifically, but it raises important questions about whether patients and doctors using different languages can reliably receive consistent information about diagnoses, treatment options, and medical risks.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

There are two main types of lung cancer: "small cell" cancers, which spread aggressively and make up about 10 to 15% of diagnoses, and "non-small cell" cancers, which make up the vast majority.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

It looked at people of all ages, but particularly focused on young people and children who have the highest rates of diagnoses.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

At the time Theresa had not dared to; and though later she’d learned to talk professionally — to present cases — past differential diagnoses and treatment plans, she managed nothing.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen


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