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[dok-ter] / ˈdɒk tər /






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Dr. Amy Zeidan, an emergency medicine doctor and associate professor at Emory University who studies immigrant detainee health outcomes, said the VA data show detained immigrants require significant medical care.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

The majority of American adults today view their test results online before talking to a doctor, research shows.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

Wyle: That particular dialogue was gifted to me by a doctor who shared with me that that was exactly what he said to his wife one morning when he was going through something very similar.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

El-Sayed for years called himself a physician, but there is no public evidence he has experience as a licensed medical doctor.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

"Deep down, all hunters are fearful," the doctor said.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

If patients turning to the Internet for medical advice wasn’t enough, doctors now have a new, more powerful version of “Dr. Google” to contend with.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

Roughly a third of adults now consult AI for health advice, leaving doctors to untangle erroneous guidance.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

Instead of giving its doctors and nurses several seasons to evolve, the second season of “The Pitt” jumped 10 months into the future.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

Not only did Zepbound help people lose more weight, some doctors believed it came with fewer of the gastrointestinal side effects that make it hard for some patients to stay on these drugs.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

The possibility of a closed brain injury is why doctors fuss if you bang your head falling off a bicycle or crashing a car or getting hit hard in the head with anything.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

His wife confronted him weeks later after noticing pages missing from a credit report he had doctored to hide the loans.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

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

He has previously questioned whether a picture of him with his arm around Guiffre had been doctored and claimed he had never met her.

From BBC Feb. 9, 2026

Soon, real and doctored versions of those photos were filtering their way across the internet.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 7, 2026

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

“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

In 2022, Fischer ordered the neutral forensic examination of alleged doctoring of the city records.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 12, 2026

Fifa, the world football governing body, has accused FAM of doctoring citizenship documents so seven foreign-born athletes could play for Malaysia.

From BBC Jan. 28, 2026

The clinic note is a vital part of doctoring.

From Slate Aug. 19, 2025

St. Clair was where folks went for doctoring or banking or big deliveries, like a new wagon or a stove, that could only come by train.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney




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