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healer

[hee-ler] / ˈhi lər /


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A faith healer, called to the house in Matla village, gave her syrups and tablets.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

I think he should have stuck with the story — he was portraying himself as a doctor because he’s a healer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026

“Music is the ultimate healer in my opinion,” says Nancy Wilson of Heart.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

"I was feeling very weak and was scared for my life. When the healer saw me two days later, he said I was lucky to be alive."

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026

“Oh yeah. A healer and a tank walk into a boss fight with a DPS that doesn’t do damage...”

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

I was at a sound bath in the North American Mammal Hall at L.A.’s Natural History Museum, surrounded by dioramas of taxidermy, meditative instruments and sound healers from the Oso Sound Healing Studio.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Adam Hussein, a 35-year-old representative for Mongbwalu's traditional faith healers, fretted about Ebola denial and called on everyone to take precautions.

From Barron's ● May 24, 2026

But the way it tethers its bruised healers to the human condition’s laws of gravity is potent medicine for coping.

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2026

Little wonder, then, that many patients preferred the services of women healers, or would take a risk on “quacks”—traveling salesmen selling ointments from town to town—rather than risk a visit to a hospital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

He followed her in 1868 when she and her younger sister, Tennessee Claflin, moved to New York City to work as spiritualist healers.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling




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