doctor
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Two weeks later, a doctor diagnosed Fennell, 53 years old, with nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy, or NAION, a condition that leads to sudden, often permanent vision loss.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
In the 2024 special “The End of Obesity,” a doctor recommends semaglutide for Cartman after diet and exercise fail to meaningfully improve his health.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
“I can’t recognize him in this picture,” the doctor said between sobs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Nooria, which is not her real name, still remembers one of the moments that made her want to be a doctor.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
"But he's got a bad hand. It's frozen. Turning black. He needs a doctor."
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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The breakthrough established MAL as a human blood group system and gave doctors a new way to identify the exceptionally rare people whose blood lacks the AnWj antigen.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
While some evidence suggests semaglutide could roughly double patients’ risk, that would still lead to very few losing vision, doctors said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
They were often doctors or academics who “knew the science,” but “that didn’t seem to matter.”
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
He consulted with an array of doctors throughout the Central Valley and interviewed county officials, often hitting dead ends the moment he uttered “union” or “farmworkers.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Mom’s doctors say that the treatments seem to be working.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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According to the lawsuit and subsequent discovery, they doctored a 911 report, stating that the call was unfounded and that no suspect was identified, omitting Williams’ identity.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
Soon, real and doctored versions of those photos were filtering their way across the internet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
Mountbatten-Windsor said at the time: "Nobody can prove whether or not that photograph has been doctored but I don't recollect that photograph ever being taken."
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2026
The company’s new management team has also been probing its accounting practices, and said it found evidence of doctored invoices and double-pledged collateral.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
Now, I doctored this passage to make it bewilderingly incoherent, just to dramatize the topic of this chapter.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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“Back then, they had 30 cowboys who rode every day, seven days a week, doctoring cattle. I’ve got five,” the younger Nieto said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
"There was a little bit of stone doctoring," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2025
The clinic note is a vital part of doctoring.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2025
Catherine, the Princess of Wales, apologized on Monday for doctoring a photo of her with her three children, which was recalled by several news agencies on Sunday after they determined the image had been manipulated.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2024
I wasn’t done doctoring, but Karl was done being a patient.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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