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gurney

[gur-nee] / ˈgɜr ni /


NOUN
stretcher
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Some 24 hours later, she was handcuffed to a gurney and taken to a psychiatric hospital.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Finally, the long-anticipated moment arrived: Firefighters wheeled out a gurney carrying Hernán Alberto Gil Flores — a security guard who survived for more than a week trapped under a mountain of rubble.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 5, 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

There, lying on a gurney was the very woman who had selected Dr Bhargava to head the hospital - Indira Gandhi.

From BBC Jun. 28, 2025

We entered the same room the gurney had been wheeled from.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

The new season doesn’t ease up on its episodic biopsies of bad policy results piling up on the gurneys lining the trauma center’s walls.

From Salon Jan. 8, 2026

Posting on X, McGarry said he saw three people "seriously injured" on hospital gurneys awaiting treatment.

From BBC Dec. 17, 2024

Behind the facade lies a vast floor with no halls and no doors—just a gigantic room, doctors and nurses behind white masks, test tubes and pipettes, incubators and gurneys.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu




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