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gurney

[gur-nee] / ˈgɜr ni /


NOUN
stretcher
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Corinna Barrett Lain: So when you think of the obfuscation, you know, you might want to ask yourself: Why are they on a gurney?

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

An hour later, on a gurney in the emergency room at Cedars-Sinai, I waited to be admitted overnight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

It’s said that he was dictating more criticism on the gurney that carried him to his final operation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

His phone rings during a moment of silence for a deceased patient and he injures his finger moving a patient off a gurney.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2025

It had gone everywhere—all over the gurney, all over Dr. Musoke, all over the floor.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

An AFP reporter at the scene witnessed people being carried out of the wreckage on gurneys and loaded into waiting ambulances as hundreds of bystanders looked on, some seemingly in shock.

From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026

Background actors who fill the overcrowded waiting room or lie on gurneys waiting for treatment have medical journeys organized by the show’s production team.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

They see and treat heart attacks and strokes, or don’t see them, learning that sometimes the people they think are fine to leave waiting on gurneys aren’t.

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2025

He said sometimes bodies were left on gurneys in the hallways outside of the morgue covered with nothing more than a bedsheet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025

Sailors rushed in, prepared with gurneys and pallets.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys




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