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[druhg] / drʌg /




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Such subtle structural differences can matter enormously in chemistry, particularly in drug manufacturing.

From Science Daily Sep. 20, 2026

After incompatible transfusions were followed by signs of red blood cell destruction, clinicians used sutimlimab, a drug that blocks part of the immune complement pathway.

From Science Daily Sep. 19, 2026

Prof Niamh Nic Daeid, director of Dundee University's Leverhulme laboratory, said its expanded role as a national drug testing and research centre would make a difference too.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

Your morning catch-up: SoCal remembers two news veterans, the driver accused in a fatal Metro bus crash had multiple drug arrests and more big stories.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

In any case, she refused to take the drug test and signed a paper for the termination of her parental rights to me instead.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

Pharmaceutical manufacturers, for example, could use the particles to identify unwanted impurities in drugs.

From Science Daily Sep. 20, 2026

Fennell is one of dozens of people suing Novo, maker of the popular weight-loss and diabetes drugs Wegovy and Ozempic, claiming the medication caused this side effect.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

The Hindenburg disaster, wonder drugs, Marian Anderson’s voice, a rock ’n’ roll alternate history and more.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

That pattern suggests the original gaps may have reflected differences between the types of people who used GLP-1 drugs and those who did not, rather than effects caused by the medications themselves.

From Science Daily Sep. 18, 2026

Because of Chapel Hill High School’s strict Zero Tolerance Policy toward drugs, the school nurse had to dispense all medications for Chapel Hill High School students.

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

Had Raynella drugged him and staged an accident?

From The Wall Street Journal May 1, 2026

"He arrived with brain trauma, sedated, drugged, breathing with a ventilator," Interior Minister Armando Benedetti said.

From Barron's Oct. 19, 2025

Thousands wrote letters to suggest ways of capturing Goldie, including "get a gun that shoots a net" and "use archers to fire drugged meat into the air".

From BBC Mar. 2, 2025

Mr. Olson was working at Fort Detrick and was unwittingly drugged with LSD in a CIA mind-control experiment that ended with him falling to his death from a New York hotel window.

From Washington Times Dec. 6, 2023

At the hospital, while she lay in a drugged fog, the doctors coaxed the baby from her womb.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

With her brown bobbed haircut and round sunglasses, Pelicot has become an international feminist symbol, inspiring a change to French rape laws and a public reckoning with the problem of drugging women.

From Barron's Feb. 11, 2026

If there is widespread dog drugging, I certainly didn’t find that or hear about it, and I asked some questions along those lines.

From Salon Apr. 23, 2024

This new information could prove to be especially useful to drug developers hoping to create a new cancer treatment by drugging this interaction.

From Science Daily Nov. 15, 2023

About half the complaints that California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform receives about inappropriate drugging of residents involve Depakote, said Anthony Chicotel, the group’s top lawyer.

From New York Times Sep. 11, 2021

Certainly, in the province of the string quartet, nothing quite like the salty and acrid, the fruity, drugging savor of Bloch's work, has ever before appeared.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld




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